CODE 90576 ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 3 SCIENZE INTERNAZIONALI E DIPLOMATICHE 8768 (L-36) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-STO/03 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 2° Semester OVERVIEW State and International Politics between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Introductory (undergraduate) course on Soviet and Post-Soviet history. Ideologies, state, and society, with emphasis on how internal factors shaped international politics. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Understanding of the main stages and issues of Soviet and Post-Soviet history TEACHING METHODS Lectures RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Oleg Chlevnjuk, Stalin, Milano, Mondadori, 2016 Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire. The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009 Stephen Kotkin, A un passo dall’Apocalisse. Il collasso sovietico, 1970-2000, Roma Viella, 2010 fuirther reading will be assigned in class. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD Exam Board MARA MORINI (President) LARA PICCARDO (President) MARIA ELEONORA GUASCONI MARIA ELISABETTA TONIZZI LESSONS LESSONS START II semester Class schedule HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND EURASIA - INTRODUCTORY EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral exam FURTHER INFORMATION Students must register in the relvant aulaweb course page
