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166-030 Transitions in Central & Eastern Europe | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-235/335. Students who have completed 166-235/335 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Leslie Holmes |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of First Year Politics. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the Second/Third Year coordinator. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | 30 contact hours per semester. Two 1-hour lectures per week for 10 weeks and a 1-hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester |
Subject Description | This subject 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. On completion of this subject students should be able to provide: a comprehensive analysis of the numerous explanations of the 1989-91 Eastern European Revolutions and the 1991 collapse of the USSR; a brief analysis of the political, social and economic systems of the eight East European states and the USSR up to 1989; an up-to-date analysis of the various problems and achievements of transitional and post-communist states in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. |
Assessment | An essay of 3000 words and an assignment of 1000 words. |
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