Emel’jan Ivanovič Pugačëv’s revolt
This course will examine Pugačëv’s revolt with the aim of providing students with an appropriate interpretative key to the phenomenon of rebellion and its relationship with religions and popular culture.
Lectures
By adopting a methodology grounded in the political, cultural, social and religious history of eighteenth-century Russia, the course will introduce and analyze the last large-scale revolt which shook the Russian Empire between 1773 and 1775. The lectures will move from the study of myths and collective imagination to the analysis of the political and social reasons which prompted the revolt. In this way the course will concurrently throw light upon the phenomenon of rebellion, on the antique roots of popular culture and on the profound traits of a world subject to turbulent changes.
Reading list for students for whom this course is worth 6 ECTS
P. Bushkovitch, Breve storia della Russia. Dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 (pp. 139-161).
M. Natalizi. La rivolta degli orfani. La vicenda del ribelle Pugačëv, Roma, Donzelli, 2011.
Reading list for students for whom this course is worth 9 ECTS
A.S. Puškin, Storia della rivolta di Pugačëv in Aleksandr S. Puškin, Opere, a cura di Eridano Bazzarelli e Giovanna Spendel, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2006.
MARCO NATALIZI (President)
LUCA LO BASSO
ROBERTO SINIGAGLIA
18th September 2017
Oral exam
The final examination will be conducted and evaluated by the course lecturer who will check the acquisition of disciplinary contents. In particular, the oral exam will verify the thematic area of competence, the ability of contextualization and the capacity to examine and reflect upon sources and documents.
Curriculum of the Lecturer
Marco Natalizi (1963) is Associated Professor in History of Eastern Europe. After graduating at the University of Pisa he was trained at the Universities of Florence and Siena. His most significant publications are: Il burattinaio dell’ultimo Zar. Grigorij Rasputin (Salerno, 2016); Pietro il Grande. Uno zar in Europa (EDISES, 2014); L’ingresso della Russia in Europa, in Storia d’Europa e del Mediterraneo. Dal Medioevo all’età della globalizzazione, Sezione V. L’Età moderna (secoli XVI-XVIII), Vol. XII. Popoli, stati, equilibri del potere (Salerno, 2013); La rivolta degli orfani. La vicenda del ribelle Pugačëv (Donzelli, 2011); Il caso Černyševskij (Bruno Mondatori, 2006); All’ombra della legge. L’amministrazione delle comunità urbane in Russia nella metà del XVIII secolo (Bruno Mondatori, 2003); Nikolaj Gavrilovič Černyševskij, Scritti politico-filosofici, traduzione, introduzione e note a cura di Marco Natalizi (Maria Pacini Fazzi, 2001). He is member of Società Italiana per la Storia dell'Età Moderna (SISEM) and of Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo (SISSD).
