Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Mar 2022)
Gli attori della crisi del 1992
Abstract
Telling the story of the 1992 crisis exposes to a risk: knowing its epilogue, thus falling into the temptation of searching for the symptoms that heralded said crisis and the causes that explain the subsequent events. Indeed, to this day, a historiographical orientation exists that has mainly highlighted the contradictions produced by a sedimentation of degenerative elements in the decades prior to the breaking out of Tangentopoli. The objective of the present contribution is to propose a reinterpretation of those events, not exclusively as the product of concatenations of causes prior to 1992, but also by investigating the conflictual dynamics of the time, primarily generated by the players directly involved in the public and media space: magistrates, journalists, entrepreneurs and the emerging political forces. Without following the thread of the power clashes during the unfolding of Mani pulite (Clean Hands), one may fail to understand the motivations of said players and the driving forces that took part in the process, as well as the dynamics that significantly conditioned the circumstances of the time, and therefore the subsequent relapses.
