Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo TraversoRequirements: .ePUB reader, 10.9 MBOverview: The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how […]
Singular Pasts: the I in Historiography by Enzo Traverso Requirements: .PDF reader, 2.4 MBOverview: Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor autobiography, this hybrid genre […]
Revolution: An Intellectual History by Enzo TraversoRequirements: .ePUB reader, 8.6 MBOverview: A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of “dialectical images”: Marx’s “locomotives of history,” Alexandra Kollontai’s sexually liberated bodies, Lenin’s mummified body, Auguste Blanqui’s barricades […]
The New Faces of Fascism by Enzo TraversoRequirements: .ePUB reader, 628KBOverview: What is fascism in the twenty first century? What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, […]
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.2 MBOverview: Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture […]