Soviet, Russian, & Post-soviet Politics (PS-0122)

Fall 2023 · PS 0122 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Analysis of domestic political, economic, and social development of the Soviet Union and its successor states. Approximately one third of the course is devoted to an overview of political, economic, and social structures that defined Soviet Communism. The remaining two-thirds of the course considers the divergent paths taken by the fifteen successor states of the Soviet Union after 1991. The course applies social scientific theories while examining developments such as state collapse and state formation, political and institutional changes, the politics of economic reform, the challenges of nationalism within the multinational state, electoral revolutions, and other topics.

Course codes: PS-0122, PS 0122, PS0122, PS-122, PS 122, PS122

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