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EURR 5202

Special Topics in Russian and Eurasian Studies

0.5 credit · Graduate

Selected topics related to the communist and post-communist states and processes of transition they are undergoing.

2021

Topics

  • Geopolitics I: Moscow, Beijing, and the West
  • Required Readings
  • Library]
  • Alexander Gabuev, “Unwanted but Inevitable: Russia’s Deepening Partnership With China Post
  • Ukraine” in Bekkevold and Lo, Sino-Russian Relations, pp. 41-66.
  • The Pre-revolutionary Legacy

Readings

  • Bobo Lo, “Introduction” in Jo Inge Bekkevold and Bobo Lo, eds, Sino-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, E-book: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 1-17. [E-book available in MacOdrum
  • Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, New York: Basic Books, 2012, pp. 33-44, 49-58.
  • Alexander Lukin, The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia’s Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century, Armonk, NY: M.E.
  • Sharpe, 2003, pp. 75-97.
  • Stephen Kotkin. Stalin, Vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. New York: Penguin Press, 2014, pp. 625-633, 638-640.
  • “Conclusion: Revolt, Intervention, and Cold War” in Odd Arne Westad, Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946, New
  • York: Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 165-181.
  • Chen Jian, “The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China’s Entry into the Korean War”, Cold War International History Project Working Paper No. 1, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson
  • International Center for Scholars, June 1992.

Prerequisites & course information

Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as EURR 4202 , for which additional credit is precluded.

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