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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2007
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MLSC 603 001 (CRN: 21844)
HOW COME COMMUNISM COLLAPSED?
Long Title: HOW COME COMMUNISM COLLAPSED?
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Instructor: Stokes, Gale
Meeting: 6:15PM - 9:30PM T (8-JAN-2007 - 23-MAR-2007)
Part of Term: MLS Winter Session
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 20Department Permission Required
Section Enrolled: 9
Enrollment data as of: 18-MAY-2024 11:19AM
Description: This history course will investigate the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1991 and related historical issues. Why did Marxism, which is based on a citique of capitalism, succeed in Russia in the first place, since Russia was essentially an agrarian state? What led to the emergence of the Cold War after World War II? Was it the Yalta agreements, agression by the Soviet Union, American intransigence, or what? When did the Soviet system sign its own death warrant? Who was the prime mover in the events of 1989 - Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, or the East Europeans themselves? And what about Yugoslavia? Why did the collapse of communism there mean bloody warfare, whereas it did not in the USSR and in Czechoslovakia?