Università Roma Tre

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.

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.