East-Central Europe in Transition, 1988 to 1993

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. State-socialism and Soviet domination collapsed in East-Central Europe in 1989. Analysis of cause and consequence of collapse, as well as road of transformation in seven (now 12) countries of region; international circumstances and domestic political, social, and economic processes. Ideology of transition versus reality of democratization, marketization, and privatization; free choice versus determinant factors. Scenarios for future. P/NP or letter grading.