Rise of Bolshevism and its Impact on the Interwar International Order

Valentine Lomellini is Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Law Sciences, and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, where she teaches on the History of International Relations and Terrorism and Security in International History. She has published extensively on the international relations between Italy, France, the Eastern bloc and the US and in 2009, she was awarded the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic. She is currently working on a research project on the cooperation of European states against international terrorism.

• International Order and the Bolshevik Challenge in the aftermath of WW1 – V. Lomellini.- Part I: Diplomacy and Security: the Bolshevik threat.- Italian Reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution (1917-1918). - A. Varsori.- Rome and Moscow seek a closer alliance in the 1920s - E. Dundovich.- The Other “Thermopylae” of Europe. Greater Romania and the Red Menace - A. Basciani.- Hungarian Communists in Italy under the surveillance of Italian and Hungarian authorities - B. Juhász.- The Empire under attack: Anglo-Soviet Relations and Bolshevik infiltration in India in the early 1920s - G. Bentivoglio.- Part II: Perceptions of Bolshevism. People, Networks and Ideas.- From mistrust to hostility: perceptions of the Russian revolutions among French political circles (1917-1919) - F. Dessberg.- The Russian Revolution and Polish Communism in the interwar era - E. Krasucki.- “A successful method”: the Chinese reception of the Russian revolutionary model in the 1920s - L.M. Capisani.