00959 - History of Eastern Europe

Learning outcomes

The course program requires at least a previous knowledge in Contemporary History and Political Doctrines. Aim of this course program is to offer a basic knowledge in History and Politics of East Central and Balkan Europe during the second half of the 20th Century.

Course contents

Aim of the course program is to analyze ECE and the Balkans political history since WWII to 1989. Methodologically, teaching style is following a chronological approach, whether in the introductory remarks is put some attention to some relevant theoretical issues like: modernization and State building processes; cultural identity, national question and selfdetermination.

Readings/Bibliography

Testi/Bibliografia: Readings Compulsory readings: First mid term exam: Richard Pipes, Comunismo, una storia, Rizzoli, Milano, 2003 Fabio Bettanin, Stalin e l'Europa. La formazione dell'impero esterno sovietico (1941-1953), Carocci Editore, Roma, 2006; Second mid term exam: Fowkes Ben, L'Europa orientale dal 1945 al 1970, il Mulino, Bologna, 2004; Gokay Bulent, L'Europa orientale dal 1970 a oggi, il Mulino, Bologna, 2005; Final oral exam: Geoffrey Swain and Nigel Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Additional reading/reference: Centro per l'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica, Guida ai Paesi dell'Europa Centrale, Orientale e Balcanica. Annuario politico-economico, edizione 2006, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007. An Historical Atlas is highly suggested as a reference: Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, University of Washington Press, 1995 oppure su Gérard Chaliand e Jean-Pierre Rageau, Atlante politico del XX secolo, SEI, Torino, 1989. Readings in addition to the Students who can not attend regular classes. Please select ONE of the following option : a) East Central Europe: Francesco Privitera, L'Europa orientale e la rinascita dei nazionalismi, Guerini, Milano, 1994. P. Hanak, Storia dell'Ungheria, Angeli, Milano, 1996. Marcello Flores, 1956, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1996. Corsini e Zaffi (a cura di), Le minoranze fra le due guerre, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1994 unitamente a Livia Plaks, Andrzej Mirga e Henry H. Huttenbach, The «otherness» of Nomadic and Sedentary Citizens: the cultures of Jews and Roma, the Occasional Paper, Longo Editore Ravenna, 1996. Wilfried Loth, Figliastri di Stalin. Mosca, Berlino e la formazione della RDT, Quattroventi, Urbino, 1997. Ladislav Holy, The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. Betty Miller Unterberger, The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia, Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station, 2000. Gustavo Corni, Il sogno del Grande Spazio, Laterza, Bari, 2005 Dennis Deletant, Romania under Communist Rule, The Center of Romanian Studies, Oxford, 1999. b) South East Europe: Francesco Privitera, Jugoslavia, Unicopli, Milano, 2007; Edgar Hosch, Storia dei Balcani, il Mulino, Bologna, 2006; Florian Bieber and Carsten Wieland, Facing the Past, Facing the Future: Confronting Ethnicity and Conflict in Bosnia and Former Yugoslavia, Longo, Ravenna, 2005. Rada Ivekovic, La balcanizzazione della ragione, ManifestoLibri, Milano, 1995 unitamente a Rada Ivekovic, Le pouvoir nationaliste et les femmes, Occasional Paper, Longo Editore Ravenna, 1996. Richard Clogg, Storia della Grecia moderna: dalla caduta dell'Impero bizantino ad oggi, Bompiani, Milano, 1996. Marco Dogo, Kosovo. Albanesi e Serbi: le radici del conflitto, Marco, Lungro di Cosenza, 1992 unitamente a Albania, emergenza italiana, Quaderni speciali di Limes, 1997. Marco Galeazzi (a cura di), Roma-Belgrado: gli anni della guerra fredda, Longo Editore Ravenna, 1995. Anna Krasteva (a cura di), Communities and Identities in Bulgaria, Longo, Ravenna, 1998; Marco Dogo and Guido Franzinetti (a cura di), Disrupting and Reshaping. Early Stages of Nation-Building in the Balkans, Longo, Ravenna, 2002; Luisa Chiodi (a cura di), The Borders of the Polity. Migrations and Security Across the EU and the Balkans, Longo, Ravenna, 2005; Mient Ian Faber (ed.), The Balkans. A Religious Backyard of Europe, Longo Editore Ravenna, 1996. Stefano Bianchini, George Schöpflin (eds.), State Building in the Balkans. Dilemmas on the Eve of the 21st Century, Longo Editore, Ravenna, 1998. Dusan Janjic (ed.), Ethnic Conflicts and their Managements. The Case of Yugoslavia, Longo Editore, Ravenna. Further suggested readings: History and Politics Francois Frejto, Histoire des Democratie Populaires, Ed. du Sevil, 1952; Norman Neimark and Leonid Gibianskii (Eds.), The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949, Westviev Press 1997; S.J. Ball, The Cold War. An International History 1947-1991, Arnold, 1998; Lannie P. Johnson, Enemies, Neighbours, Friends, Oxford UP, 1996; Ivan T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe 1944-1993. Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery, Cambridge UP, 1998; Reneo Lukic & Allen Lynch; Europe from the Balkans to the Urals. The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, Oxford UP, 1996; R. Craig Nation, War in the Balkans 1991-2002, US Army War College, 2003; Dimitri Pentzopoulos, The Balkan Exchange of Minorities and its Impact on Greece, Hurst, London, 2002; Robert M. Hayden, Blueprints for a House Divided. The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts, Michigan, 2000; Mark Biondich, Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928, UTP, 2000. Henry Huttenbach and Francesco Privitera (eds.), Self-Determination. From Versailles to Dayton. Its Historical Legacy, Longo, Ravenna, 1999. Post-Communism Geoffrey Pridham & Paul G. Lewis (Eds.), Stabilising Fragile Democracies, Routledge, 1996; Herbert Kitschelt, Zdeneka Mansfeldova, Radoslav Markowski, Gabor Toka, Post Communist Party System. Competition, Representation and Interparty co-operation, Cambridge UP, 1999; Tomas Kostelecky, Political Parties after Communism. Development in East-Central Europe, John's Hopkins UP, 2002; Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Mueller Rommel (Eds.), Cabinets in Eastern Europe, Palgrave, 2001; Marie Lavigne, The Economies of Transition. From Socialist Economy to Market Economy, St. Martins' Press, 1995/00; Ben Fowkes, The Post-Communist Era. Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe, MacMillan, 1999; Minton S. Goldmann, Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe. Political, Economic and Social Challenges, Sharp, 1997; Michael D. Kennedy, Cultural Formations of Post-Communism. Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War, University of Minnesota Press, 2002; Gill Jaeme, The Dynamics of Democratisation. Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process, NY, St. Martins Press, 2000. Katherine Verdery, The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Post-Socialist Transylvania, Cornell, UniPress, 2003; Jerald Creed, Domesticating Revolution from Socialist Reform to ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village, Pennsylvania State UniPress, 1998; AA.VV., The Inflexibility Trap: Frustrated Societies,Weak States and Democracy, Centre for Liberal Strategies-Institute for Market Economics, Sofia, 2003.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures with an active participation by the students.

Assessment methods

Non Italian Students will negotiate the Assessment with the Professor at the beginning of the course taking in consideration the language skills in Italian. In case, non Italian Students can be assessed in English both on thebasis of two tests (as far as it is in the program) for each modules and a final oral exam, or only with an oral exam. Tutorship provided by the professor is available for non Italian Students during office hours. Readings can be selected in English under the supervision of the Professor.

Teaching tools

Maps on power point. Occasionally, photos, movies and music.

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Privitera