№ 5 - 1999
Terracciano N.
Rosselli and Herzen: Two European Liberal Socialist Revolutionaries

An original historiographical investigation by an Italian researcher. Published on the occasion of a centenary since the birth of Carlo Rosselli, an outstanding Italian socialist and anti-fascist, one of the founders of the Justice and Liberty movement and of the Action Party in the period between the two world wars. The author shows, in particular, Rosselli’s profound vision of the great epoch of Russian Revolution; of special interest is the researcher’s penetration into the meaning of Alexander Herzen’s heritage for Rosselli’s ideological make-up; the author depicts the unique and organic conjunction of liberal, socialist and revolutionary components of both political thinkers’ humanistic sense of history. Preceding the article is a reference note on Carlo Rosselli, by the journal’s Political Director.