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Year 4 Politics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Leslie Holmes.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will be able to:
- analyse from a theoretical perspective the anti-communist revolutions of 1989-91 and the early stages of post-communism;
- locate these theoretical analyses within broader political and social theorising;
- highlight and discuss practical problems of implementing political, economic, social and ideological revolutions simultaneously.
Content:
Addresses many of the theoretical issues raised by the collapse of communism and the emergence of post-communism. The arguments of those who claim that the experiment with modernity has been shown by the anti-communist revolutions to have finally failed, will be critically assessed. Marxisms focus on class as the motor of history will be compared with views that focus more on national identity. More practical problems of creating a post-communist political, economic, social and ideological system will also be considered. The subject will also consider some of the real achievements of post-communism.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 158)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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