Unit CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL HISTORY
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 10998109
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Possieri
- Teachers
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- Andrea Possieri
- Hours
- 66 ore - Andrea Possieri
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Formazione storica, politica e sociale
- Sector
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- After several introductory lessons, this course will focus on the analytical
categories necessary to understand and to answer the fundamental
questions posed by XIXth - XXth century political history, from an italian
and european perspective. - Reference texts
- - G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Il mondo contemporaneo, Roma-Bari,
Laterza, 2019 (2026).
- L. DI NUCCI, Sul sistema fascista, Bologna, il Mulino, 2026. - Educational objectives
- The student will master the most important historical-political episodes in
the current debate on the contemporary history.
Ability to employ the conceptual tools and analytical categories used
during lessons, knowledge of major historical facts and their immediate
and remote causes and consequences, correct use and knowledge of
historical maps, ability to critically and autonomously organize textbook
content and to recognize the historical roots of contemporary conflicts
and social problems. - Prerequisites
- No.
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lessons, seminars, dvd projections, tests.
- Other information
- There will be some conferences.
- Learning verification modality
- For students attending the course, the assessment consists of a
1½-hour mid-term written exam (comprising 20 questions: 6 multiple-choice, 13
single-answer, and 1 open-ended question) and an oral exam at the end of the course which consists of a discussion on the topics covered during
the course. The oral exam serves to ascertain the level of knowledge, the
ability to understand and the language and exposure properties achieved
by the student.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or learning difficulties, please visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Lessons will focus on the analytical categories necessary to understand
and to answer the fundamental questions posed by XIXth - XXth century
political history, from an italian and european perspective.
The relevant introductory topics of XIXth century history are: the crisis of
multinational empires and the birth of national States in Europe, the birth
of major political ideologies, colonialism and imperialism, the evolution of
european constitutional systems.
The XXth century is the true core of the course and major events will be
treated extensively: the two World Wars, the russian revolution, the crisis
of democracy and the birth of totalitarian systems, the cold war and its
consequences in Europe and abroad, the process of European integration,
foundation and evolution of the italian republican political system, the fall
of the Berlin wall. A specific study will concern fascist regime.