20740035 - HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE


This course introduces students to the study of Eastern European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the historical and social dynamics that have affected Eastern Europe. This solid historical foundation allows students to understand the ongoing processes in this part of the European continent.
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Programme

- Eastern Europe after the Congress of Vienna
- The Ottoman Empire from the Congress of Berlin to the Young Turk Revolution
- The minority question
- From the Paris Peace Conference to the birth of post-war Europe
- The national question in the Balkans
- Eastern Europe in the logic of the Cold War
- 1989
- Case Studies

Core Documentation

Giulia Lami, Storia dell’Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla fine della prima guerra mondiale, Milano, Mondadori Education 2019
Alberto Basciani, L’illusione della modernità. Il Sud-est dell’Europa tra le due guerre mondiali, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Storia dei Balcani, Besa, 2019



Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory but desirable.

Type of evaluation

The exams will take place orally.