QUESTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Course objectives

The course aims to deepen a complex issue of great importance in contemporary history through the direct reading of sources and specialized bibliography, in order to put the student in a position to address original topics even in a research context, to formulate judgments in more complex and articulate, communicate the knowledge and the processes that led to their acquisition, and study the topics in an autonomous way.

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Course program
The course addresses the history of communism from a global perspective, from its origins in the catastrophe of World War I, through the clash with Nazi-fascism, the Cold War, the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of China as a global superpower.
Prerequisites
General knowledge of Contemporary History from the 19th and 20th centuries is a prerequisite.
Books
Tommaso Detti, Giovanni Gozzini, L’età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale. 1968-2017, Laterza, Roma, 2018. Gary Gerstle, Ascesa e Declino dell’Ordine Neoliberale. L’America e il Mondo nell’Era del libero mercato, Neri Pozza, 2024 Un’opzione a scelta fra: 1 Economia e Società al tempo della crisi della globalizzazione: Collin Crouch, Postdemocrazia, Laterza, 2005 Joseph Stiglitz, La globalizzazione e i suoi oppositori. Antiglobalizzazione nell'era di Trump. Einaudi, 2018 (Nuova edizione) 2. L’Italia al tempo della globalizzazione Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, Storia dell’Italia contemporanea (1943-2023), Il Mulino, 2024, (dal capitolo IV in poi). Marco Di Maggio, La sinistra in Italia dopo il Pci. Rifondazione comunista, gli antagonisti della globalizzazione e il centrosinistra, Carocci, 2025
Teaching mode
oral
Frequency
Libera
Exam mode
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Lesson mode
Frontal lessons
  • Lesson code1023229
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseModern Philology
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDM-STO/04
  • CFU6