Professional Affiliation

Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the President of the Fondazione Gramsci, Rome. 

Expert Bio

Silvio Pons is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the president of the Fondazione Gramsci, Rome. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York, and at the European University Institute, Florence, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, and a Visiting Fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
He wrote, among others, Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936-1941 (Einaudi 1995, Frank Cass 2002, Routledge 2014), The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917-1991 (Einaudi 2012, Oxford University Press 2014), and The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party. A Transnational History (Stanford University Press, 2024). He edited A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism (Einaudi 2006-2007, Princeton University Press 2010) and was General Editor of the Cambridge History of Communism (Cambridge University Press 2017).
His main field of interest is 20th-century international history, with a particular focus on Communism and the Cold War.