Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski e i paradossi del “totalitarismo sovietico” (1977-1981)

This essay moves from Jimmy Carter's Annapolis speech of June 1978 to question the meaning of the recovery of the language of "Soviet totalitarianism" in US presidential rhetoric, carried out by Carter for the first time on that very occasion. Investigating the origins and implications of Jimmy Carter's lexical choice allows us to shed light on an important passage, not only in the history of the foreign policy foreign policy and political communication of a specific administration, but of the broader cultural history of the United States.