La concretezza come procedimento. Contributo per una storia di Memorial
Concreteness as a procedure. Contribution to a history of Memorial
Author(s): Simone GuagnelliSubject(s): History, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Management and complex organizations, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, History of Communism, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies, Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Memorial; Nobel Prize; civil rights; historical memory
Summary/Abstract: The present article offers a brief history of the Russian non-governmental organisation Memorial, a recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day. It also proposes an attempt to create a bibliography which could be used for a larger monographic volume, a more detailed work capable of going into more detail about the founding instances of the most important cultural movement of resistance in Russian and post-Soviet society. The nearly simultaneous invasion of Ukraine and the banning of Memorial make the publication of such a work urgent. It would not only outline the organisation’s development but also become a manifesto of concrete common action for a new Europe arising at the end of the conflict, which could thrive on the shared themes of historical memory and the defense of civil rights.
Journal: Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica
- Issue Year: 5/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 1-24
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Italian