The meaning history of Revolution of October

Abstract

The Soviet Union gives way to Holy Russia, the red flag to the tsarist tricolor, Leningrad is renamed St. which the Italian, hastily changed their name to underline their difference with respect to the historical process that began in October 1917: the nostalgia for the good old days spreads not only among readers of serials overflowing with the love and tears of the offspring of the disappeared dynasties , but also among not a few exponents of a historiography and journalism that is increasingly uncritically "revisionist" and finds, finally, its consecration in the positions taken by John Paul II, committed to portraying our century as the century of sin.