Why are some post-communist countries more politically and economically successful than others? What underlies the many conflicts in this region? What can happen in the future, and what can we learn from the East European experience? This course is designed to study different topics such as the history of the region. The course consists of two modules: one historian, the other political, both of them in English.
This course aims to deepen the evolution of Eastern European countries and the region since the October Revolution. The first part focuses on historical formation of the States of the region, the events in 1989, the transitions there after, and the long/period reasons of the frozen conflicts. The second part provides a political science analysis of Eastern European Countries and Soviet space under communist rule and the different reactions in their processes of democratizations as well as their social, economic, political transformations since the fall of Communism, and the major issues like Color Revolutions and specific policies within Eastern Europe. The learning outcomes: knowledge and understanding of historical, political, economic and international processes that characterize the International history of Eastern Europe; awareness of the distinction between facts and opinions about the history and politics of Eastern Europe; skills in using different methodological approaches; critical reflection on the questions presented; skills for operating in the cooperation field; skills in using the second language in thematic narratives; skills in learning to learn.
awareness of the distinction between facts and opinions about the history and the politics of Eastern Europe;
skills in using different methodological approaches;
critical reflection on the questions presented;
skills for operating in the cooperation field;
skills in using the second language in thematic narratives.
36 hours lectures
The course consists of two modules: one historian, the other political, both of them in English.Knowledge and understanding of historical, political, economic and international processes that characterize Eastern Europe.
Why are some post-communist countries more politically and economically successful than others? What underlies the many conflicts in this region? What can happen in the future, and what can we learn from the East European experience? This course is designed to help you answer these and similar questions. Topics include the history of the region, state-socialism and its collapse, the emergence of ethnic and religious conflict, the transitions to democracy and market economics, entry into NATO and the European Union, democratic backsliding, and Russia's conflict with Ukraine.
The historical module deepens the birth and the evolution of the countries of Eastern Europe and of the region from the constraint of the Tsarist Empire to the events of 1989; successive transitions; analysis of frozen conflicts; Eastern Europe, Russia, the EU and NATO.
The politological module examines the politics of transition and change in post-communist countries in their effort to establish new democratic regimes and find their place in the world. This module consists of three main parts.
Available in Aulaweb
Module 2:
Morini Mara (2020), La Russia di Putin, Bologna, il Mulino.
Ricevimento: Via Teams writing an e-mail to lara.piccardo@unige.it
Ricevimento: E-mail to: mara.morini@unige.it
FABRIZIO COTICCHIA (President)
MARA MORINI (President)
MARCO DI GIULIO
STELLA GIANFREDA
DIANA SPULBER
14th September 2020
Oral. discussion.
