POLT 260 - Post Soviet Politics

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
This courses explores some of the major political themes of the last one hundred years - the Russian revolution, Stalinism, the nature of the Soviet political system, Gorbachev’s perestroika, the Soviet collapse, and Russia’s struggle with capitalism and democracy. Much of the course will be devoted to the dramatic events of the postcommunist era, and the politics in Putin’s Russia and in the other post-Soviet states.