Central purpose of this course is the critical analysis of several large themes of the italian history in the Twentieth century, which will be deepened through discussion and interpretation of the main texts of national and international historiography. Specific topics will be as follows: nationalistic current as the ideological basis of european Fascism; The Great italian war and the global context; interpretations of the Bolshevik Revolution; the origins of Fascism in Italy; the fascist culture characters; the interdependence between the US and the European continent; the “Great Crisis" of 1929: causes and consequences; Fascism and Totalitarianism; World War II; the genocide of the Jews; the european Resistance and the nazifascist massacres