Università Roma Tre

The Russian Empire at the beginning of the XX century: a State between modernization and backwardness; The defeat to Japan and the democratic and national revolution of 1905. The World War I and the fall of tzarism, the Bolscevism in power and the Civil War. The New Economic Policy (NEP), the building a new society and a new state and the death of Lenin. Stalin and the rise of the power: industrialization, collectivization of lands e the long terror. From the strange alliance with the nazis to World War II. The victory over Germany and the birth of a superpower. The death of Stalin and a new protagonist: Nikita Krusheev. The 20th Congress of the Communist Soviet Party: a new way to the soviet policy? The new challenges in foreigns policy and the problems in the economy. The definitive stabilization? Brezhnev's rise to power. The decline: from Brezhnev death to the Andropov years. The last opportunity: Gorbatchev in power and the start of perestrojka. The fall of the USSR and the birth of the Russian Federation: from Eltsin to Putin age.

1) A. Graziosi, L'Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, Il Mulino

2) F. Benvenuti, Russia oggi. Dalla caduta dell'Unione sovietica ai nostri
giorni, Roma, Carocci

Non-attending students will need to add the following book: P. Paul Bushkovitch ,
Breve storia della Russia. dalle origini a Putin, Torino, Einaudi. Or in alternative: O. Figes, Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: a History, New York, Metropolitan Books