21801662 - HISTORY OF CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE

THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE CONCERNS THE MOST GREATER PART OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT, THAT IS THE COUNTRIES INCLUDED BETWEEN THE ADRIATIC SEA AND THE URALS, THE BALTIC SEA AND THE BLACK SEA, WITH INEVITABLE TRESPASSES IN ASIA (BYZANTINE EMPIRE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND USSR). THAT HISTORY INCLUDES A GREAT DIACHRONIC FRAMEWORK, FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE AGE TO OUR DAYS. NEVERTHELESS IN THIS FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCES THE FOCUS IS ON THE CONTEMPORARY AGE (XIX-XX CENTURIES). THAT SUBJECT IS PROPOSED TO THE STUDENTS, NOT ONLY AS A TOOL OF PURE CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT, BUT ALSO AS THE INTRODUCTION TO A VAST AND IMPORTANT AREA VERY CLOSED TO OUR PENINSULA, INCLINED TO INTERESTING EVOLUTIONS FOR ITALY AND FOR A GRADUATE IN POLITICAL SCIENCES.
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Programme

PRINCIPALS MATTERS:
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE FROM THE 1815 TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
THE SOVIET UNION AND CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE IN THE INTERLUDE AMONG THE TWO WORLD WARS.
THE SOVIET UNION AND CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE FROM THE POSTWAR PERIOD TO 1991.
THE POST-COMMUNIST EPOCH.

PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO THE POLITICAL HISTORY, WITH A MINOR ATTENTION TO THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, AS ALSO TO THE PRINCIPAL TIDES OF POLITICAL THOUGHT. GREAT ATTENTION WILL BE RESERVED TO THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.


Core Documentation




Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico (1855-2005), Roma, Carocci, pp. 258, 20 euro
Francesco Guida, La Russia e l’Europa centro-orientale: 1815-1914, Roma, Carocci, pp. 127, 10 euro
Francesco Guida, L’altra metà dell’Europa dalla Grande guerra ai giorni nostri, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 26 euro

Not attennding students: Antonio D'Alessandri, Sulle vie dell'esilio: i rivoluzionari romeni dopo il 1848, Lecce, Argo 2015


Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

30-40 minutes oral exam

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

30-40 minutes oral exam (on line, during Covid-19 emergency)