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The article discusses the activites Cliomedia in the field of historical research. It describes the usage of visual products, such as illustrations, designs, and photographs, to grab the readers' attention. The article mentions Cliomedia's focus on the history of women, focusing on oral and written sources, photographs, postcards, and leaflets. The article continues on with a description of the cd-rom "Mussolini di Renzo de Felice" and the process of creating multimedia products within the field of historical research.

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The paper discusses the adaptation of the Italian diplomatic bureaucracy to the growing complexity of international relations, which occurred during the Cold War. Starting from the late 1940s technicalities and scientific dossiers were included in the diplomatic agenda. Traditional diplomats proved to be unfit to understand and address by their own those problems. As a result, the diplomatic bureaucracies of Western advanced countries had to reform the structures responsible for the foreign policy-making. In Italy, this reform was only partially accomplished: the lack of openness of the diplomatic elite left the door closed to those technical experts, who could add value to the international action of Italy, both in the bilateral and in the multilateral arena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the Second World War, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) featured a constant electoral growth while developing a national union strategy intended to recreate the 1945 alliance among communists, socialists and catholics. However, after 1979 the PCI was unable to adapt itself to a different national and international context and had to face a considerable electoral decline. This paper argues that the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), instead of coping with PCI's heritage and the causes of its crisis, chose to pursue a re-foundation, based on repression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1923, the National Fascist Party (Pnf) and the Italian Nationalist Association (Ani) decided to merge: consequently, the Ani, a political party founded in 1910, disappeared from the Italian political scene. Although the merger did not appear to cause any tension, it was actually a rather complex process, involving the most prominent members of the Association from opposing positions. This paper, based on the analysis of printed sources and through an extensive use of archival material, intends to shed light on the role played in this context by Alfredo Rocco, who was at the time a leading nationalist and, from 1925, minister for Justice in Mussolini's government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the outbreak of the so-called "Cultural Cold War", Soviets and Americans strove to circulate their respective social and cultural models and ideologies in their rival fields. More importantly they aimed to restrict the expansion of the enemy values in their own territory. The promotion and diffusion of American Studies in the universities of the Western European block was part of that conflict. So far, knowledge about who took part in this effort and which activities were implemented in order to promote American History, Art, Literature, Political Science, etc., among citizens of the Old Continent is scarce. This paper seeks to illuminate this process by analyzing what happened at the Bologna Center of the John Hopkins University in that regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the end of the 19th century to the present, six political regimes followed one another in Germany: from the monarchy to the Weimar Republic, the national socialist dictatorship, the occupation by the allies after the Second World War, East Germany under Soviet influence, the new established capitalist West Germany and the reunified Germany (the "Berlin Republic" after 1990). Nevertheless, surprisingly enough, the structure of the German welfare state has shown a steady continuity over such a long span of time: Germany is a very prominent example of "path dependency" in matter of welfare state. This direction is characterized by a corporative stance in social policy and it involves economic associations, Unions, private welfare organizations and mainstream Churches as leading actors of this process. The article discusses whether or not the influence of religion is a cause for the distinct features of the German welfare state. It briefly draws on current analysis and a research project in Münster (Germany); it investigates the historical and ideological roots of the typical German welfare model, and the role religion played in that respect. Finally, it focuses upon the German welfare-state model from 1945 to the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses various issues related to changes that have occurred in the formulations of higher education and the divide between the systems for the elite and masses of the society. It is stated that the development of the higher education in the Second World War can be interpreted as the transition of the higher education from elite to mass. It is informed that the most evident characteristic of the transition consists in the dimensional growth of the higher education. It is highlighted that there exists both qualitative and quantitative differences between the higher education for the elite and the mass. It is argued that the systems of education for the mass has rendered the rapport between higher education and the job market more articulate and complex.