At the end of the lectures the student will acquire the knowledge of the main events in the history of Eastern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the to the early 21st century
1) Eastern Europe: a geographical-cultural space 2) The Congress of Vienna 3) The 1848 4) The Ottoman Empire 5) The Russian Empire 6) From the Habsburg Empire to Austria-Hungary Hungary 7) The Congress of Berlin 8) Modernisation and backwardness 9) The 1905 Revolution 10) The First World War 11) The Bolshevik Revolution 12) Versailles 13) The first post-war period 14) Eastern Europe between the two wars 15) The Cold War and the Iron Curtain 16) The Cold War and the Iron Curtain 15) The Cold War and the Iron Curtain 16) Stalinism and the Soviet bloc 17) Birth and development of popular democracies 18) 1956 19) The case of Yugoslavia 20) Crisis of the Soviet system and the collapse of the Berlin Wall 21) Eastern Europe in the 1990s
The course will take place in the second (prof. Giovanni Scirocco) and third subperiod (prof. Paolo Barcella).
