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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Steve Wheatcroft.
Prerequisite: Politics students: 166-216. Soviet Studies students: Soviet Studies subjects.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will have:
- an understanding of the previous economic system of the Soviet Union and its intermeshing with Soviet power;
- examined the ways in which economic reform has attempted to displace the former system and found a liberal democratic system based on a capitalist economy;
- developed a series of critical interpretations of the emergent Russian political-economic landscape;
- a good grasp of the contemporary Russian situation in both its political and economic aspects, a strong knowledge of the debates surrounding the problems of transition, and a deeper understanding of the processes which tie together politics and economics and the ways in which they can be incorporated into meaningful political analysis.
Content:
The subject provides an introduction to the centrally planned Soviet economy and a brief history of the Communist form of development. This is followed by study of attempts to reform the Soviet model and the model's political collapse in 1991. Attention is then paid to economic reform since 1991. Reform is considered both conceptually and then in terms of the actual policies pursued, in particular shock therapy and privatisation. The purposes Russian economic policy has purported to serve, the political agents involved in its production, and those aligned against it, are all viewed and analysed. Discussion will also take place concerning the political and sociological effects of economic reform. A number of contemporary case studies of specific Russian economic sectors are then supplied as a means to examining the depth of the Russian economic crisis. Case studies will vary according to suitability but in the past have included: the military-industrial complex; heavy industry; agriculture;international trade.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p153) : Next:166-238 | Prev:166-235
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-238 | Prev:166-235
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Steve Wheatcroft.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will have:
- an understanding of the previous economic system of the Soviet Union and its intermeshing with Soviet power;
- examined the ways in which economic reform has attempted to displace the former system and found a liberal democratic system based on a capitalist economy;
- developed a series of critical interpretations of the emergent Russian political-economic landscape;
- a good grasp of the contemporary Russian situation in both its political and economic aspects, a strong knowledge of the debates surrounding the problems of transition, and a deeper understanding of the processes which tie together politics and economics and the ways in which they can be incorporated into meaningful political analysis.
Content:
The subject provides an introduction to the centrally planned Soviet economy and a brief history of the Communist form of development. This is followed by study of attempts to reform the Soviet model and the model's political collapse in 1991. Attention is then paid to economic reform since 1991. Reform is considered both conceptually and then in terms of the actual policies pursued, in particular shock therapy and privatisation. The purposes Russian economic policy has purported to serve, the political agents involved in its production, and those aligned against it, are all viewed and analysed. Discussion will also take place concerning the political and sociological effects of economic reform. A number of contemporary case studies of specific Russian economic sectors are then supplied as a means to examining the depth of the Russian economic crisis. Case studies will vary according to suitability but in the past have included: the military-industrial complex; heavy industry; agriculture; international trade.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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