Silvio Pons

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.