Teaching code

4S02147

Teacher

Renato Camurri

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Contemporary History - MODULO 2 of the course Bachelor's degree in Philosophy
• Contemporary History (p) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Period

Sem 2A, Sem 2B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the knowledge 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 in 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) to orient oneself among the most important political cultures, the economic processes and the social transformations that mark the historical phases considered, d) to use in a critical way the different historiographic interpretations.

Program

Syllabus

The first lesson will be devoted to framing the main methodological questions concerning the study of the twentieth century. Subsequently the course will touch the following topics:
- 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 processes of decolonization and youth protest movements.
- The collapse of communism.
- The processes of globalization and the new world balances.


Literature

1. one booktext chosen between:
a. T. Detti-G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea, II, Il novecento, Pearson, 2017.
b. A. M. Banti, L’età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, 2011 (e successive edizioni).

2. one book chosen from the following list:
E. Gentile, La via italiana al totalitarismo. Il partito e lo stato nel regime fascista, Carocci, 2018.
S. Lupo, Partito e antipartito. Una storia politica della Prima repubblica (1946-1978), Donzelli, 2004 (e successive edizioni).
F. Romero, Storia della guerra fredda. L’ultimo conflitto per l’Europa, Einaudi, 2009 (e successive edizioni).
T. Detti-G. Gozzini, L’età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale, Laterza, 2018.


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

J. Chapoutot, Controllare e distruggere. Fascismo, nazismo e regimi autoritari in Europa (1928-1945), Einaudi, 2015.


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 display 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 regulation of the degree program requires compliance with the propaedeutics of the modules: it is therefore not possible to face the module P without having passed the module I.
Students are not advised to deal with the form I and the P form in the same appeal.


Other informations

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

1. written exam (also in English).
2. oral exam (in English, French and Spanish)

Other textbooks can be used, agreed with the teacher, in the following languages: English, French, Spanish.

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

Corona Virus Emergency

Following the decisions made by the University authorities for the Corona Virus emergency, I inform you that the exams of Contemporary History (I+P), Contemporary History (Education sciences) will take place through a online written test. The exam of Contemporary History (LM) will take place through a online oral exam.