The Collapse of Communism

3 units

This course examines the political, social, economic, and cultural factors that led to the demise of the USSR in 1991. Focusing on the lands from the Socialist Bloc in Eastern Europe to the Soviet east, it broadly engages post-WWII Soviet history and in particular, focuses on the politically stable and largely socially tranquil decades spanning the 1960s to the 1980s.