Russia, a country that is essential to the international political equilibrium, is at the center of this course. The main objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of Russian history during the years of communism, in order to deepen the dynamics of the crisis, the fall and the difficult transition towards a political and economic model, that is only partly inspired by Western democracies.
teacher profile teaching materials
1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino
3) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi, dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci.
for non-attending students P. Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi.
Mutuazione: 21810420 STORIA DELLA RUSSIA E DELLO SPAZIO POST-SOVIETICO in Politiche per la Sicurezza Globale: Ambiente, Energia e Conflitti LM-52 A - Z BASCIANI ALBERTO
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 haphazard development; World War I and the end of a world; The Bolshevik Revolution, its origins and affirmation; 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; World War II; Victory and the birth of a superpower; The Cold War: The USSR and the West; Khrushchev 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 turbidity; A new strong man? Putin and the new Russia: ambitions and contradictions of a regime.Core Documentation
1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino
3) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi, dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci.
for non-attending students P. Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi.
Type of delivery of the course
Classroom lessons with active participation of students and contributions of specialists.Attendance
Class attendance is optional but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
the oral test will cover all aspects of the program.