Rinascita
EditorAlberto Asor Rosa
Former editorsPalmiro Togliatti
CategoriesPolitical magazine
Frequency
  • Monthly
  • Weekly (from 1962)
FounderPalmiro Togliatti
Founded1944
Final issueMarch 1991
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian
OCLC222152942

Rinascita (Italian: Rebirth) was a political and cultural magazine published in Rome, Italy, between 1944 and March 1991. It was one of the media outlets of Italian Communist Party (PCI).

History and profile

Rinascita was founded in 1944.[1][2] The founder was Palmiro Togliatti, the leader of the PCI.[3][4] He launched the magazine upon his return to Italy from exile in Moscow.[4] He also edited the magazine until his death in 1964.[4] Rinascita, published on a monthly basis, was headquartered in Rome.[2] It was an official organ of the PCI.[2][5][6]

Rinascita was established to serve as an ideological guide for militants and to revive the Marxist movement.[4] It argued that the Communist Party had the most comprehensive vision about the nation's interests.[7] The magazine attempted to develop a synthesis between Gramsci and Stalin.[8] Following the death of Stalin in 1953, Rinascita described him as a perfect Marxist.[9]

One of the frequent topics featured in Rinascita was the resistance against Fascists.[10] It also published a special issue about the resistance, and Gisella Floreanini was among its contributors.[10] The other leading contributors included Carlo Bernardini, Giovanni Berlinguer, Fausto Bertinotti and Giulio Quercini.[11]

From 1962 Rinascita was published weekly.[3][12] In the 1960s the magazine provided detailed analyses on the Sino-Soviet split.[13] During the same period it featured many articles containing discussions about the relationship between socialism and democracy and between state and party.[14] These articles, although written by different authors, commonly concluded that centralized rule, censorship, ideological dogmatism, and administrative coercion should be condemned.[14]

The magazine frequently featured articles on environmental issues in the 1980s.[11] Rinascita temporarily stopped publication due to the low circulation figures in the late 1980s.[15] It was soon relaunched, but again ceased publication in March 1991.[15] Alberto Asor Rosa was the last editor of the magazine.[15]

References

  1. ^ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-415-14584-8.
  2. ^ a b c Sergio J. Pacifici (Autumn 1955). "Current Italian Literary Periodicals: A Descriptive Checklist". Books Abroad. 29 (4): 409–412. doi:10.2307/40094752. JSTOR 40094752.
  3. ^ a b Joan Barth Urban (1986). Moscow and the Italian Communist Party: From Togliatti to Berlinguer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 359. ISBN 978-1-85043-027-8.
  4. ^ a b c d Alexander Höbel (November 2017). "Anniversaries of the October Revolution in the political-cultural magazine of the Italian Communist Party: Rinascita, 1957-1987". Twentieth Century Communism. 13 (13): 88–111. doi:10.3898/175864317822165086.
  5. ^ Roberto Sarti (8 June 2011). "The dissolution of the Italian Communist Party (1991)". Marxists. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  6. ^ Federico Mancini (June 1970). "The Inner World of Italian Communism". Dissident.
  7. ^ Alessandro Brogi (2011). Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy. Chapel Hill, NC: The UNC Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8078-7774-6.
  8. ^ Richard Drake (2009). Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-674-03432-7.
  9. ^ Richard Drake (Spring 2010). "Terrorism and the Decline of Italian Communism". Journal of Cold War Studies. 12 (2): 110. doi:10.1162/jcws.2010.12.2.110. S2CID 57569294.
  10. ^ a b Philip Cooke (1998). The Legacy of the Italian Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 62. doi:10.1057/9780230119017. ISBN 978-0-230-11901-7.
  11. ^ a b Wilko Graf von Hardenberg; Paolo Pelizzari (2008). "The Environmental Question, Employment, and Development in Italy's Left, 1945-1990". Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate. 13 (1): 29. doi:10.25071/1913-9632.24611.
  12. ^ Stephen Gundle (2000). Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991. Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-8223-2563-2.
  13. ^ Marco Gabbas (2022). "The origins of Italian Maoism". The Global Sixties. 15 (1–2): 81. doi:10.1080/27708888.2022.2144248. S2CID 253504428.
  14. ^ a b Kevin Devlin (1968). "The New Crisis in European Communism". Problems of Communism. 17 (6): 62.
  15. ^ a b c Leonard Weinberg (1995). The Transformation of Italian Communism. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-4128-4030-9.

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