Federigo Argentieri

Federigo Argentieri(born 1953)

Italian scholar and academic - Currently teaching contemporary history and international politics at John Cabot University and Temple University Rome Campus- Specializes in European affairs, East and West, and Transatlantic relations- Has widely published on Eastern Europe under communism, particularly on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and on security issues after the Cold War - Director of the Guarini Institute at the John Cabot University in Rome and secretary of The Italian Association for Central and East European History (AISSECO).

In November 2007, an International Conference entitled The Ukrainian Holodomor and the Denial of Genocides was organized by the Guarini Institute, and held at John Cabot University, in Italy. Federigo Argentieri, from the Guarini Institute, read the paper: “Ideology and Diplomacy: How the Ukrainian Famine Was—and Still is—Denied.” In his presentation, Argentieri introduced the history of denial of the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33. Conflicting reports on the events in 1933 highlighted the willingness of the Great Powers to ignore the plain facts witnessed by British government officials in the Soviet Union. At the time, political and economic interests took precedence over internal human rights matters. Argentieri noted that today, the famine remains virtually ignored, even in academic circles in the West. [65]

Publications

Argentieri, Federigo, 1953See under http://www.aisseco.it/soci/argentieri.htm

ources

[http://www.aisseco.it/Invitation_UKRAINE-BELARUS.pdf Conference on Ukraine] [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_cold_war_studies/v006/6.3argentieri.html Project MUSE]