Università Roma Tre

The Russian empire at the beginning of the XX century: society, economy, culture; the Russian revolutions, the rise of the Bolshevism and the civil war; the New Economic Policy (NEP); Stalin and his Stalinism: Power and Authority in the Soviet Union, Collectivization and Industrialization; the USSR's foreign policy between traditionalism and Comintern; the Second World War; The soviet supremacy in Eastern Europe; the death of Stalin and the struggle for the succession; Kruščëv's years; the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its consequences; Brežnev years: the system halted; The war in Afghanistan; Gorbačëv the impossible reform; the collapse of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation, the rise of nationalism and chechen wars; the Boris Eltsin president of Russia or the birth a kleptocracy; a new era? Russia's Putin.

For attending students:


1) Andrea Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.

2) Francesco Benevenuti, Russia oggi. Dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci, 2013

For non-attending students:

3) Paul Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.