TY - JOUR
T1 - Fascist soft power propaganda in the Baltic states during the interwar period
T2 - the case of Latvia
AU - Napolitano, Rosario
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the programme for the Centenary of the Republic of Latvia. I am grateful to the members of Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dace Arakeljana, Valdis Rūsiņš, Iveta Šķiņķe and Eva Vijupe. I am very thankful to Pietro U. Dini (University of Pisa), Andrea Griffante (Lithuanian Institute of History), Stefano Santoro (University of Trieste) and Alessandro Vitale (University of Milano) for their useful and helpful comments on the first version of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Journal of Baltic Studies.
PY - 2022/4/26
Y1 - 2022/4/26
N2 - This article, the result of intense archive work, retraces the influence of Italian cultural propaganda in Latvia starting from the de jure recognition in 1921 until the first Soviet occupation in 1940. The cultural relations between Italy and Latvia, could be depicted in two different waves: the first one, from 1921 until 1932, where Italy tries to establish the foundations of its cultural influence, not without a few difficulties, and the second one, from 1933 until 1940, when Fascist propaganda increased in Latvia; undoubtedly, this growth of cultural relations corresponded to Ulmanis’s takeover. Moreover, a more detailed propaganda strategy abroad was outlined, starting from 1932, with the Volta Conference and with the establishment of CAUR (Comitati d’Azione per l’Universalità di Roma/Action Committees for the Universality of Rome) and of the Ministry of Popular Culture in 1937.
AB - This article, the result of intense archive work, retraces the influence of Italian cultural propaganda in Latvia starting from the de jure recognition in 1921 until the first Soviet occupation in 1940. The cultural relations between Italy and Latvia, could be depicted in two different waves: the first one, from 1921 until 1932, where Italy tries to establish the foundations of its cultural influence, not without a few difficulties, and the second one, from 1933 until 1940, when Fascist propaganda increased in Latvia; undoubtedly, this growth of cultural relations corresponded to Ulmanis’s takeover. Moreover, a more detailed propaganda strategy abroad was outlined, starting from 1932, with the Volta Conference and with the establishment of CAUR (Comitati d’Azione per l’Universalità di Roma/Action Committees for the Universality of Rome) and of the Ministry of Popular Culture in 1937.
KW - Benito Mussolini
KW - CAUR
KW - Fascist propaganda
KW - Kārlis Ulmanis
KW - Latvian independence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130016694&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01629778.2022.2067577
DO - 10.1080/01629778.2022.2067577
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130016694
SN - 0162-9778
VL - 54
SP - 243
EP - 259
JO - Journal of Baltic Studies
JF - Journal of Baltic Studies
IS - 2
ER -