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La Cina e il nuovo ordine euro-asiatico

Sin dal 2013, quando il Presidente cinese Xi Jinping ne delineò gli obiettivi, l'iniziativa ormai nota come “Nuova Via della Seta” o “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) è rapidamente divenuta fulcro della politica estera della Cina in Eurasia e a…

The ambivalent Russian soul

A century was not enough for Russia to absorb not only the effects, but the reasons for the 1917 Revolution. Both Russian society and government still lack a consensus on whether it was one of the greatest tragedies, or an idealistic and…

The sinister echoes of 1917 in today’s Russia

A century after Russia’s 1917 revolutions, the current government has hardly reflected on either event. As noted by American historian Chris Miller and others, the symbolism of the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and the October…