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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Leslie Holmes.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- provide a comprehensive analysis of the numerous explanations of the 1989-91 East European Revolutions, and the 1991 collapse of the USSR;
- prove a brief analysis of the political, social and economic systems of the eight East European states and the USSR up to 1989;
- prove an up-to-date analysis of the various problems and achievements of both transitional- and post-communism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
- briefly compare and contrast communism as a political theory with communism as a power-system;
- consider gender and ethnic issues of both late communism and early post-communism; assess what post-commism might mean as an abstract concept.
Content:
Explores the reasons for the collapse of communism and the emergence of post-communism in what used to be the eight countries of Eastern Europe and in the former USSR. The subject is primarily thematic - exploring issues such as; marketisation and privatisation; gender issues (eg. why does feminism appear to be so weak in post-communism?); nationalism and ethnic conflict (eg. the Bosnian issue); the environment - but also includes a series of individual country studies. The subject considers not only the problems, but also the achievements of the still fragile post-communist systems.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Leslie Holmes.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- provide a comprehensive analysis of the numerous explanations of the 1989-91 East European Revolutions, and the 1991 collapse of the USSR;
- prove a brief analysis of the political, social and economic systems of the eight East European states and the USSR up to 1989;
- prove an up-to-date analysis of the various problems and achievements of both transitional- and post-communism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
- briefly compare and contrast communism as a political theory with communism as a power-system;
- consider gender and ethnic issues of both late communism and early post-communism; assess what post-commism might mean as an abstract concept.
Content:
Explores the reasons for the collapse of communism and the emergence of post-communism in what used to be the eight countries of Eastern Europe and in the former USSR. The subject is primarily thematic - exploring issues such as; marketisation and privatisation; gender issues (eg. why does feminism appear to be so weak in post-communism?); nationalism and ethnic conflict (eg. the Bosnian issue); the environment - but also includes a series of individual country studies. The subject considers not only the problems, but also the achievements of the still fragile post-communist systems.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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