Università Roma Tre

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) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla 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.