Reference no: EM132311029
Modern Italy since 1815
Final test
4 answers total
Part 1 : Answer and/or discuss 1 or 2 questions chosen among questions/statements 1 to 6 (max 1 page per answer)
Part 2 : Answer 2 or 3 questions chosen among questions/statements, 5 -15 ( max half a page per answer)
Note: question 5 and 6 can be answered with either a short or a long answer
1) Discuss the major transformations that characterized Italy during the Glorious Thirty (1945-75)
2) Discuss gender issues and politics in relations to the years 1950s-1980s (specify which issues you are going to focus on)
3) What is the role of the Catholic church in Italy since unification, discuss its changing political and social influence, you should make reference to some instances of such role and its changing features.
4) Discuss the social and economic evolution of Italy in the period from the 1950s to the 1990s with reference to the class and regional dimensions (careful with overlapping with n.1)
5) Discuss the difference between memorial, museum, memory site and monument in relation to our visit to the monument museum of the racial and political deportee of Carpi and to the Fossoli ex concentration Camp and make reference to other sites of your knowledge
6) Which institutions where present in Italy during the period 1943-45? List them and give a brief description, providing also a list of the various factions that fought in the resistance.
7) When did the "strategy of tension" begin? What did it consist of?
8) How can we define a terrorist organization? In what ways terrorism is distinct from political assassination?
9) What were the changes that characterize the "transition" years from 1945 to 1948
10) Outline the difference, especially from a politics of memory perspective, between the church of S Croce and another instance of your choice.
11) Summarize Berlusconi's career what are the novelties that he introduced in politics
12) What is Primo Levi's grey zone? What does it includes and what does it excludes?
13) Describe the structure of the Mafia according to Buscetta's revelations
14) List the various mafias of Italy , together with their main regional allegiance?