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.
teacher profile teaching materials
Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013
Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021. Students attending will need to study the pages starting with the second chapter.
Non-attending students will add the entire volume:Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021
Programme
Introduction: from Kievan Rus' to Ivan IV the Terrible; The First Modernization of Russia: Peter the Great and the birth of a Great Power; The long Russian nineteenth century from the Napoleonic wars to the reforms of Alexander II; The Russia of Nicholas II: The contradictions of an impetuous and disorderly development; The First World War and the end of a world; The Bolshevik revolution, its origins and its affirmation; The Russian civil wars and the origins of the Soviet state; The NEP, the rise of Stalin, Collectivization, industrialization and the birth of Stalin's USSR; The Great Terror; Comintern, Communist parties and traditional foreign policy; The Second World War; Victory and the birth of a superpower; The Cold War: the USSR and the West; Chrushev and the 20th Congress of the PCUS; The Brezhnev years: consolidation and stagnation; The impossible reform of the system: Gorbachev between perestroika and glasnost'; The end of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation; Yeltsin and the age of turbulence; a new strong man? Putin and the new Russia: ambitions and contradictions of a regime.Core Documentation
Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla fine della prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013
Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021. Students attending will need to study the pages starting with the second chapter.
Non-attending students will add the entire volume:Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021
Reference Bibliography
Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla fine della prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019.Type of delivery of the course
frontal lessons.Type of evaluation
oral examinations.