The History of Central-Eastern Europe and Russia embraces the study of the main political, economic and social dynamics of the countries of Central Europe, of the South-Eastern part of the continent and of Russia in contemporary age, with inevitable references also to the events of the modern age. The study of this area is particularly important for students of Political Science because like few areas in the world it allows them to analyze the processes of nation building and state building and therefore, after 1917 in Russia/Ussr and after 1945 in most of Eastern Europe, the impact that the construction of communist dictatorships had on those societies. After 1990, on the other hand, students will be able to appreciate the processes of transition to a market economy and Western-style democracy. Finally, it is worth emphasizing how today the Italian cultural and economic presence is very important in many countries of the region.
teacher profile teaching materials
1) Tsarist Autocracy and the Disappearance of the Nation in Central Europe 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War 3) National Revival in the Balkans 3) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe 4) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II 5) The Bolshevik Revolution. the birth of a new world 6) Stalinism and the Soviet state 7) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe 8) The communist system and the Cold War 9) Crisis and end of communism 10) From the Urals to Trieste... an endless transition? 11) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.
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
Mutuazione: 21810354 STORIA DELLA RUSSIA E DELL'EUROPA CENTRO-ORIENTALE in Scienze politiche L-36 BASCIANI ALBERTO
Programme
The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.1) Tsarist Autocracy and the Disappearance of the Nation in Central Europe 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War 3) National Revival in the Balkans 3) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe 4) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II 5) The Bolshevik Revolution. the birth of a new world 6) Stalinism and the Soviet state 7) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe 8) The communist system and the Cold War 9) Crisis and end of communism 10) From the Urals to Trieste... an endless transition? 11) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.
Core Documentation
G. Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019Giovanna 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
Type of delivery of the course
frontal lessonsType of evaluation
oral examinations