Course info
SEES0108: Post-Soviet Politics (21/22)
The aim of this module is to examine the social, political and economic
development of the fifteen post-Soviet states since 1991. It will examine
why reform has been so much more difficult than in CEE, discuss whether
‘post-Soviet’ is still a valid concept and whether common patterns
(corruption, oligarchs, informal politics, political technology) can still
be found in the various successor states. The largely failed ‘coloured
revolutions’ of 2003-05 will be examined; as will the crisis around
Ukraine in 2014 as a turning point for would-be reformers, for the
prospects for developing relations with the EU, and for Russia’s
continuing influence in the post-Soviet space.
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