Claudio Pavone

Pavone was the president of the Historic Institute of the Liberation movement in Italy, the president of the Italian Society of Contemporary History and the director of the historical journal Parolechiave (Keywords).

This experience, as well as informing his civil conscience and political vision, also influenced his activity as a historian, both with regard to his chosen field of research and the way in which he analysed it.

Pavone published, for Bollati Boringhieri, Alle Origini della Repubblica (On the Origins of the Republic), an historical analysis of the route that led from the demise of the fascist regime, 25 July 1943, to the advent of the Republic on 2 June 1946 .

Before the publication of Una Guerra Civile the expression was only used, apologetically, by the Italian far right.

[4] An English translation of this work, published by Verso in 2013, appeared under the title "A Civil War - A History of the Italian Resistance".