“La lotta per Roma:” la neutralità italiana nella stampa russa (1914-1915)

[Machine translation] This essay analyzes the interpretation given in Russia to Italian neutrality during the first year of the First World War: the description of Russian opinions is made through the analysis of the two most important Russian newspapers, one reactionary and one more progressive, the Moskovskie Vedomosti and the Russkie Vedomosti. Through the analysis of the articles, some Russian prejudices about the nature of the Italian people are outlined, but there is also space for the actions of tsarist foreign policy so that the Kingdom of Italy enters into conflict alongside the Entesa. The only voice out of the box is represented by the Bolshevik press led by Lenin, which, with the articles published in Social-Demokrat, praised the positions of the Socialist Party and already stigmatized interventionists like Mussolini.