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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-235/335 Dictatorships, Democracies and Transition: Russian and East European Politics

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Leslie Holmes

Prerequisite/s:

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Content:

Explores the reasons for the collapse of communist power and the emergence of post-communism in what used to be Eastern Europe and the USSR. Issues studied include democratisation, marketisation and privatisation, gender, nationalism and ethnic problems, and the environment. There is also a series of lectures on individual countries. Both the problems and the achievements of the still fragile post-communist countries will be analysed.

Assessment:

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.
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