Rileggendo il Populismo russo di Franco Venturi

This short essay proposes a reading of Franco Venturi’s Russian Populism in the light of the many contributions to his intellectual biography. It takes into account the edition of two of Venturi’s unpublished texts written in 1939 and 1941-42, now available as Communism and Socialism. History of an Idea (2014). This essays situates Venturi’s interpretation of Russian revolutionary socialism on the background of his political and intellectual evolution, an evolution now much better understood, yet tormented and full of complex reticence.