Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A002640
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Emanuela Costantini
- Teachers
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- Emanuela Costantini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Emanuela Costantini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The object of the course are the salient stages of the political, social and economic evolution of Russia from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
The monographic part deals with Russian cultural history. - Reference texts
- Students are supposed to know geographical, antropic and political features of today's Russia. Please check in an atlas (such as the Calendario Altlante De Agostini) or in http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/russia/General part
Recommended manual:
P. Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Einaudi, Torino, 2013, pp. 216-531
Monographic part
Students attending the course:
2 chapters from
O. Figes, La danza di Nataša. Storia della cultura russa (XVIII-XX secolo), Einaudi, Torino, 2002
Students not attending the course:
C. King, Odessa. Splendore e tragedia di una città di sogno, Einaudi, Torino, 2013 - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course students should know contemporary Russian history and understand the links between political context and socio-economic and cultural evolution.
- Prerequisites
- A general knowledge of contemporary history.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and seminars, use of power points, audiovisual materials and written documents.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral