PS 1341 - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS USSR/RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the political systems in the USSR (1917-1991) and its major successor, the Russian Federation (1991-present). The first section deals with the period from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the mid-1980s. The second section examines the efforts to reform the political system under general Secretary Gorbachev. The final section deals with the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the subsequent development of the Russian Federation as an independent state.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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