RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
(objectives)
Acquire knowledge of the historical processes that characterized the contemporary age (XIX-XXI century) in Russia and in the space of Eurasia (that is to say, the space that was part of the Russian Empire and then of the Soviet Union); to achieve knowledge of the main historiographical issues and interpretative categories of the history of Russia and Eurasia in the contemporary age; to grasp the interweaving of cultural, political, religious, social, geopolitical elements in the historical development of this area; acquire the awareness that the profile of Russian otherness in the contemporary age has been formed in the interaction between dynamics of connection with world history and processes of differentiation.
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