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 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.

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