Marco Ferrentino,
Director, Italian Cultural Center “Enrico Mattei” in Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Resistance Movement in Italy: Causes, Dynamics of Development
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-7
The article discusses the reasons for the emergence of such a phenomenon as the Italian Resistance. The author examines the reasons for the participation of Soviet citizens in the partisan detachments of Italy. The characteristics of the underground anti-fascist groups, the activities of the Communist Party, political emigration, the Moscow Lenin School, the Popular Fronts and the Spanish Civil War are given. The author consistently examines the processes that led to the consolidation of the international underground network, the purpose of which was to coordinate the communist parties of different countries, inspired by the Russian experience of the revolution. The international underground network is said to have grown and strengthened because of the inclusion of other, non-communist, progressive forces in order to organise popular resistance to the fascist regimes that spread throughout Europe. In organising the Resistance, the experience of the Italian communists became fundamental. The role of the Soviet military in the Italian Resistance is also investigated. Examples of the activities of Soviet partisans in Italy, human relations that developed between Italian and Soviet fighters are given. The article uses materials from the manuscript of Carlo Farini “Soviet partisans at the front of the 1st Zone – Liguria: a report for the leadership of the Italian Communist Party” which was written immediately after the end of the war in 1945.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 02.05.2021
How to cite: Ferrentino M. Resistance Movement in Italy: Causes, Dynamics of Development // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 59–68. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-07.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: Resistance movement in Italy; underground military formations; World War II; Soviet prisoners of war; Soviet partisans; Liguria; Italy