HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE

The course is foreseen for students at the 1st year of the MA Degree Programmes “Comparative International Relations” (curriculum "Eastern Europe"; type of educational activity: core educational activity) and “European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature” (curriculum "literature and culture" - Slavic and Balkan Studies; type of educational activity: core educational activity). The historical nature of the course contributes to the multidisciplinary goals of the two MA Degree Programmes. Furthermore, its geographical focus on Eastern Europe constributes to the teaching programmes specifically conceived for MA students interested in deepening their knowledge about that area.

The course deals with the issue of Pan-Slavism, read through its variegated historical forms acquired during the 19th and 20th century. The expected learning results are the following:

- to familiarize with and to be able to understand the main features of cultural and political phenomena of Pan-Slavist insipiration
- to be able to apply this knowledge to a critical understanding of the present time in terms of continuities/changes and public use of history
- to become acquainted with the most recent historiographical debate around notions like "Slavic brotherhood", "pan-national movements", and "politization of history"
- to refine your communication skills, both oral and written

A basic knowledge of modern and contemporary history (at least the whole high school history programm; furthermore, at least 6 ECTS in the political, social or historical field, acquired in the framework of the first degree), with a particular attention to Eastern Europe.

The course will analise some of the main features of Pan-Slavist tradition in contemporary Estearn Europe. The sub-topics are the following:

- relationships betwenn pan-/supra-national movements and nationalism
- Illyrian Pan-Slavism
- Czech Pan-Slavism
- Russian Pan-Slavism
- Soviet Pan-Slavism
- actual Pan-Slavist phenomena
- examples of theories and practices of solidarity and rivalry of Pan-Slavist origin

1. Karl, Lars; Skordos, Adamantios, “Pan‐Slavism”, in European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2019-02-11. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/karll-skordosa-2013-en
2. Joep Leerssen, “Pan-Slavism.” In Joep Leerssen, ed. Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Amsterdam: Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms, 2015, http://show.ernie.uva.nl/sla-2
3. Tilman Lüdke, “Pan-Ideologies”, in: European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2012-03-06. http://www.ieg-ego.eu/luedket-2012-en
4. Egidio Ivetic, Jugoslavia sognata. Lo jugoslavismo delle origini, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2012, introduzione.
5. Alexander Maxwell, “Effacing Panslavism: linguistic classification and historiographic misrepresentation”, Nationalities Papers, 2018, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 633-653 (in modo particolare pp. 633-644, 648-49).
6. Aslı Yiğit Gülseven, “Rethinking Russian Pan-Slavism in the Ottoman Balkans: N.P. Ignatiev and The Slavic Benevolent Committee (1856–77)”, Middle Eastern Studies, 2017, 53 (3), pp. 332-348.
7. Denis Vovchenko, “Gendering irredentism? Self and other in Russian Pan-Orthodoxy and Pan-Slavism (1856–85)”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2011, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 248-274.
8. Andrea Franco, “Ukraine as a ‘Pan-Slavic Keystone’: the Views of Nikolaĭ (Mykola) Ivanovich Kostomorov.” In: Krzysztof A. Makowski, Frank Hadler, eds. Approaches to Slavic Unity. Austro-Slavism, Pan-Slavism, Neo-Slavism, and Solidarity Among the Slavs Today. Poznań: Instytut Historii UAM, 2013, pp. 31-45.
9. Aaron J. Cohen, “'Our Russian Passport': First World War Monuments, Transnational Commemoration, and the Russian Emigration in Europe, 1918-39”, Journal of Contemporary History, 2014, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 627-651.
10. Irina Sirotkina, “The Sokol Movement in Russia: History and Contemporary Revival”, in Agnieszka Gasior, Lars Karl, Stefan Troebst (Hgg.): Post-Panslavismus. Slavizität, Slavische Idee und Antislavismus im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Göttingen:,Wallstein 2014, pp. 174-193.
11. Jože Pirjevec, “Slavic Solidarity in the Balkans since 1945”, in K.A. Makowski, F. Hadler, eds. Approaches to Slavic Unity, pp. 153-161.
12. Mikhail Suslov, “Geographical Metanarratives in Russia and the
European East: Contemporary Pan-Slavism”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2012Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 575-595.
13. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, “Sisters into Neighbours. Ukrainian-Belarusian Relations after 1991”, in Crossroad Digest. The journal for the studies of Eastern European borderland, 2008/3, pp. 4-34 (in modo particolare pp. 4-16).
14. Ivanna Machitidze, “Popular Imagery, Competing Narratives and Pan-Slavism: the Case of Ukraine’s Break-away Regions”, The Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues/La Revue de dialogues inter-régionaux, 2020 https://popups.uliege.be/2593-9483/index.php?id=139 .

For those who attend classes:

1. Group presentations (about 20 minutes) on a text in the syllabus.
The aim is to evaluate the oral communication skills, as well as the ability to work synergically with other students (10% of the final grade);

2. Written test (90% of the final grade)
The examination has three main goals:
1) to verifying the knowledge of the main historical facts and processes, as well as the most relevant personalities, with relation to the treated topics
2) to verify the analytical skills and the ability of the student to formulate critical reflections about the historiographical issues emerged during the lessons
3) to verify the knowledge of some elements of historical comparison in the framework of the East-Central and South-East European space.
The written examination (duration: 1½ hours) also aims at verifying the written communicative skills of the student.
Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the test could take place on-line, through the Moodle platform. Please, check the communications about this regard on the Moodle-section dedicated to this course.

For those who do not attend classes:
only the written examination (see above, point 2).

The course includes both lectures and short oral presentations by the students.

Italian

The teacher is easily available for questions concerning the course at his office hours and by email at stefano.petrungaro@unive.it. Emails have to be written in a formal style (not "Hi prof." or "Salve prof.", but "Good morning", "Buongiorno", and the likes) and should not ask questions whose answer can be found in the information contained in this syllabus. The teacher is also available for discussing final thesis' projects.

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development