Rinascita

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).

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

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 the contributors to it.[10]

From 1962 the magazine was published weekly.[3][11] At the end of the 1980s Rinascita temporarily stopped publication due to the low circulation figures.[12] It was soon relaunched, but again ceased publication in March 1991.[12] Alberto Asor Rosa was the last editor of the magazine.[12]

References
  1. Gino Moliterno, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London; New York: Routledge. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-415-14584-8.
  2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
  12. 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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