Post Communist Politics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course traces the processes of economic, social and political change in Russia and Eastern Europe beginning with the dramatic period of reform and revolution in the 1980s. Students will investigate the break with communism and simultaneous efforts at market building and democratization. For the contemporary period, we will inquire into the causes of the divergent political development evident in the current regimes that have emerged from the ruins of the old Soviet bloc.