Teaching code

4S02147

Teacher

Renato Camurri

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Contemporary History - MODULO 2 of the course Bachelor's degree in Philosophy

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Period

2 A, 2 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

The course aims to give students an understanding of the main events of Italian and European history in the years between the Great War and the collapse of communism. It is focused on European political, cultural and social history, which is analyzed from a comparative and transnational perspective. At the end of the course the student must be able to: a) identify the periodizations connected to the different historical periods, b) know the most important events of the different periods connected both to the European contest and to the single national cases; c) be familiar with the most important political cultures, the economic processes and the social transformations that mark the historical phases considered, d) use in a critical way the different historiographic interpretations.

Program

Syllabus

Conflicts, Wars, Reconstructions in 20th century Europe

- Methodological questions concerning the study of the twentieth century.
- The Great War and its consequences.
- The post-war period and the origins of totalitarianism.
- Italian fascism: the rise to the power.
- Italian fascism: foreign policy and consensus building.
- The Weimar Republic and the birth of National Socialism.
- Stalin’s Soviet Union.
- Intellectuals and culture in the Interwar period
- The origins of the Second World War and its developments.
- The collapse of the fascist dictatorship and the Italian Resistance.
- Post World War II and the new world geopolitical balances.
- The birth of Republican Italy.
- The United States world power.
- The Cold War.
- The United States in the 60s and 70s.
- The processes of decolonization and youth protest movements.
- The collapse of communism.
- The processes of globalization and the new world balances.


Required Reading

1. T. Detti-G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea, II, Il Novecento, Pearson, 2017 (and subsequent editions)

2. one book chosen from the following list:

O. Janz, 1914-1918. La Grande Guerra, Einaudi, 2013.
E. Gentile, Il culto del littorio. La sacralizzazione della politica nell’Italia fascista, Laterza, 1994 (and subsequent editions).
F. Romero, Storia della guerra fredda. L’ultimo conflitto per l’Europa, Einaudi 2009 (and subsequent editions).
T. Detti-G. Gozzini, L’età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale 1968-2017, Laterza, 2018 (and subsequent editions).
T.W. Zeiler, Porte aperte. L'economia mondiale dal 1945 a oggi, Einaudi, 2021.


Non-attending students must add the following volume to the above bibliography:


E. Gentile, Fascismo. Storia e interpretazione, Laterza, 2002 (and subsequent editions).



Teaching methods

Lectures, watching movies, seminars.

Examination Methods

Examination procedure

1. Assessment methods: structured written exam in open and closed questions.
2. Objectives: to verify the ability to describe historical concepts using appropriate terminology, the ability to link events and to place them adequately within the individual national contexts and the knowledge of the different historiographic interpretations of the most relevant historical processes.
3. Contents: the questions will focus on the topics covered during the course and developed in the volumes indicated in the bibliography.
4. Assessment method: score expressed in thirtieths, resulting from the sum of the attribute points for each of the questions.

The degree program regulations require students to have successfully completed the introductory module: students cannot, therefore, attend module P without having passed module I.
Students are not advised to cover both module I and the module P in the same exam session.


Other information

Erasmus students (and students hosted with other international mobility programs) who attend classes, can choose between these different options:

1. written exam (in Italian or in English).
2. oral exam (in Italian or in English, French or Spanish)

Other textbooks can be used, subject to approval by the professor in the following languages:
English, French, Spanish

For more details: contact the professor during weekly office hours.