The Italian writings of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska on Soviet Central Asia and the Bolshevik revolution Cover Image

Gli scritti italiani di Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska sulla realtà sovietica in Asia Centrale e sulla rivoluzione bolscevica
The Italian writings of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska on Soviet Central Asia and the Bolshevik revolution

Author(s): Monika Gurgul
Subject(s): Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska; soviet revolution; soviet Central Asia; Tajikistan;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to answer the question about the attitude of Edvige Toeplitz Mrozowska to the Soviet revolution with which she entered in a direct contact during her travel to Tajikistan in 1929. In the period between 1930‒1933 she devoted two texts, important in her literary output, to the revolution and the reality of Soviet Central Asia. The first is an account of the expedition to the Pamir Mountains led by Mrozowska, and, apart from the geographical subject matter typical of such texts, it contains observations regarding socialist changes in the newly established Tajikistan, while the second one is not only a collection of sketches related to the analysis of revolutionary reality, but also a kind of project with historical and even historiosophical aspirations.

  • Issue Year: 22/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 271-279
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Italian