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1 | Page University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science Politics and International Relations MA CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLITICS (PLIT10048) 2014-2015 Course organiser: DR LUKE MARCH Room 308, Chrystal Macmillan Building Tel: (6)50 4241 Email: [email protected] GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK HOURS: Wednesdays 10.00-12.00. Appointments only at all other times please (please contact me by email in the first instance) My research day is THURSDAY. I will not normally be available on Thursdays

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University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science

Politics and International Relations

MA CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POLITICS (PLIT10048)

2014-2015

Course organiser: DR LUKE MARCH Room 308, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Tel: (6)50 4241 Email: [email protected]

GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK HOURS: Wednesdays 10.00-12.00. Appointments only

at all other times please (please contact me by email in the first instance)

My research day is THURSDAY. I will not normally be available on Thursdays

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COURSE HANDBOOK CONTENTS

COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES .................................................................................... 3

CLASS TIMES ..................................................................................................................... 3 ASSESSMENT .................................................................................................................... 4

Requirements and deadlines ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Preparing for tutorial participation .............................................................................................................................. 5 Submitting your essay ................................................................................................................................................. 6

FEEDBACK ......................................................................................................................... 9

ESSAY QUESTIONS ......................................................................................................... 10 READINGS ........................................................................................................................ 11

Core textbooks ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Supplementary texts .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Soviet politics .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Journals ....................................................................................................................................................................... 12 E-journals .................................................................................................................................................................... 12 The Internet ................................................................................................................................................................. 12

WEEKLY TOPICS ............................................................................................................. 13 WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION (12 Jan) .................................................................................. 13

WEEK 2: THE SOVIET SYSTEM (19 Jan) ........................................................................ 15 WEEK 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY (26 Jan) ....................................................................... 17 WEEK 4: LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE (2 Feb) .......................................................... 19 WEEK 5: CENTRE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS (9 Feb) ..................................................... 21

DVD SESSION .................................................................................................................. 23 WEEK 7: ELECTIONS AND THE PARTY SYSTEM (23 Feb) ........................................... 24

WEEK 8: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY (2 March) ............................................................ 26 WEEK 9: RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE WEST (9 March) ..................... 28 WEEK 10: THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT (16 March) .............................................. 30

WEEK 11: DEMOCRATISATION? (23 March) .................................................................. 32 REVISION SESSION ......................................................................................................... 33

APPENDIX 1: TUTORIAL FEEDBACK AND ASSESSMENT FORM ................................ 34 APPENDIX 2: LIST OF RUSSIAN POLITICS WEBSITES................................................. 35

APPENDIX 3: LEARNING RESOURCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES ............................. 36 COURSE PROGRAMME ................................................................................................... 37

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Welcome to Contemporary Russian Politics! This semester-length honours course examines the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union and the primary actors, institutions, ideas and developments in contemporary Russia (aka the Russian Federation).

COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Aims: The course’s main aim is to provide students with a critical understanding of:

The socio-political processes which led to the demise of the Soviet Union

The nature of post-Soviet political change and the evolution of the Russian state

The major institutions of the Russian state (e.g. Presidency, Duma, Federation Council, judiciary)

Political and civil society (e.g. parties, ‘clans’, interest groups)

The role of these institutions and actors in the formulation of domestic and foreign policy (particularly as regards the other post-Soviet states)

Objectives: By the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of key institutions and processes in contemporary Russian politics

Develop a personal assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Russian political system.

Exhibit a strong understanding of competing analytical and ideological approaches for understanding Russian Politics

Evaluate alternative explanations for particular political developments and events in Russia

CLASS TIMES This course is taught through one 50 minute lecture and one 50 minute seminar per week.

Lecture: Monday 1110-1200: Chrystal Macmillan Building Seminar Room 1 (First lecture is Monday 12 January)

Tutorials (The course is capped at 25 students maximum). Tutorials will start in Week 2 – none in Week 1).

A: Monday 1510-1600: Medical School, G.14 Seminar Room - Doorway 4

B: Monday 1610-1700: Appleton Tower, Seminar Room 2.12

There will be a tutorial sign-up sheet on Learn in the middle of Week 1. Please sign up as soon as possible as places are assigned first-come, first served. Students who have not signed up by the end of Week 2 will be withdrawn from the course so that places can be given to others on the waiting list.

The lecture will cover events, facts, background, and overviews of interpretations of the week’s topic. Tutorials are each attended by a maximum of 13 students. The tutorials do not duplicate lectures, but are intended for you to explore themes relevant to the lectures of that week in greater depth and in discussion with fellow students. Tutorial participation is essential and will be assessed (see following pages). Further details of subjects and readings are given from page 12 onwards.

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ASSESSMENT

Requirements and deadlines Assessment for this course comprises three components:

o Assessed tutorial participation 20% o Essay 40% o Final exam 40%

1. Tutorial participation

Tutorial assessment is designed to incentivise reading, engagement with the literature and help form a lively, informed tutorial atmosphere. It is based on three elements: attendance, contribution to discussion and group presentation (see below for further details). 2. Essay

Students must write one typed essay of 2000 words, which accounts for 40% of the final mark. The deadline is Thursday 5 March 2015 at 12 NOON. Essays above 2000 words will be penalised using the Ordinary level criterion of 1 mark for every 20 words over length: anything between 2001 and 2020 words will lose one mark, between 2021 and 2040 two marks, and so on. You will not be penalised for submitting work below the word limit. However, you should note that shorter essays are unlikely to achieve the required depth and that this will be reflected in your mark. The following criteria are used when marking the essay. Please note that the overall mark is a result of a holistic assessment of the assignment as a whole:

Does the assignment address the question set, and with sufficient focus?

Does the assignment show a grasp of the relevant concepts and knowledge?

Does the assignment demonstrate a logical and effective pattern of argument?

Does the assignment, if appropriate, support arguments with relevant, accurate and effective forms of evidence?

Does the assignment demonstrate reflexivity and critical thinking in relation to arguments and evidence?

Is the assignment adequately presented in terms of: correct referencing and quoting; spelling, grammar and style; layout and visual presentation.

3. Examination

The final (unseen) examination will be held during April-May 2015. Examination dates are set centrally by Registry and will appear on their site (http://www.scripts.sasg.ed.ac.uk/registry/examinations/index.cfm), usually by mid-semester. The exam will count for 40% of your total assessment. The exam lasts two hours, and comprises 6 questions (of which you choose two). Exam questions (which do not duplicate essay questions) usually ask for a broader overview of issues arising from the course. Past exam papers are available here: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/exam-papers.

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Preparing for tutorial participation

Tutorial participation is based on three elements: attendance, contribution to discussion and group presentation. For the assessment form please see Appendix 1. Attendance You are expected to attend every tutorial and to arrive promptly. If attendance is likely to prove a problem, you should inform me well in advance. Full attendance does not carry a mark but five marks will be deducted from the OVERALL tutorial score for every unexplained absence. Contribution to discussion (50% of your overall tutorial assessment mark) Each student who is not presenting in a given week should read a relevant chapter from a core textbook and at least three additional items from the core reading for each week, in order to respond constructively to class discussion. You should prepare for class a reading summary of one-page A4 maximum highlighting the main points of three sources you have read and including three questions for discussion (i.e. what you would use to structure class discussion if you were leading it). You should attempt to raise these points in class discussion and should submit the summary online to your tutorial Learn page in advance of the tutorial. Submit your summaries in word or rtf format with your name and week in the document name (e.g. ‘LukeMarchWk4.doc’). These summaries will not be formally graded but will be taken into account in your overall contribution mark. In order to get a higher mark, you should contribute to online discussion either via the Facebook page ‘Russia and Wider Europe’: https://www.facebook.com/groups/105656459607058/, or the course Learn page. Group presentation (50% of your overall tutorial assessment mark) Students will be put into groups of 3 or 4 in the first tutorial and each group will usually give two presentations throughout the semester (topics will also be introduced at the first tutorial). These are timed 10-minute maximum presentations followed by Q&A. The students doing the presentation are expected to take questions, pose questions and facilitate discussion for the remainder of the tutorial. Each presentation should be accompanied by a handout of 2 pages of A4 max, distributed in paper form to students at the tutorial and uploaded to the course Learn page in advance. Powerpoint facilities may be used if available (this is not always possible in Edinburgh tutorial rooms, however). Group presentations will be assessed according to the following criteria: content of handouts, quality of presentation, understanding of core concepts, engagement with literature as well as capacity to respond to questions and facilitate discussion. The emphasis is on the ability to work as a group. Students in one group should expect the same mark unless they have demonstrably failed to contribute to the overall group effort. Note: Tutorial participation will start in week 3 and we will discuss it in more detail in week 2. A fuller guide (including marking descriptors) will be provided on the Learn page by week 2. If you are presenting in a given week, you do not need to provide a separate reading summary for that week.

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Submitting your essay

Essay Deadline: THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2015, 12 NOON

Plagiarism Guidance for Students Material you submit for assessment, such as your essays, must be your own work. You can, and should, draw upon published work, ideas from lectures and class discussions, and (if appropriate) even upon discussions with other students, but you must always make clear that you are doing so. Passing off anyone else’s work (including another student’s work or material from the Web or a published author) as your own is plagiarism and will be punished severely. When you upload your work to ELMA you will be asked to check a box to confirm the work is your own. ELMA automatically runs all submissions through ‘Turnitin’, our plagiarism detection software, and compares every essay against a constantly-updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work. Assessed work that contains plagiarised material will be awarded a mark of zero, and serious cases of plagiarism will also be reported to the College Academic Misconduct officer. In either case, the actions taken will be noted permanently on the student's record. For further details on plagiarism see the Academic Services’ website:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/academic-services/students/undergraduate/discipline/plagiarism

Data Protection Guidance for Students In most circumstances, students are responsible for ensuring that their work with information about living, identifiable individuals complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. The document, Personal Data Processed by Students, provides an explanation of why this is the case. It can be found, with advice on data protection compliance and ethical best practice in the handling of information about living, identifiable individuals, on the Records Management section of the University website at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/records-management-section/data-protection/guidance-

policies/dpforstudents ELMA: Submission and Return of Coursework Coursework is submitted online using our electronic submission system, ELMA. You will not be required to submit a paper copy of your work. Marked coursework, grades and feedback will be returned to you via ELMA. You will not receive a paper copy of your marked course work or feedback. For information, help and advice on submitting coursework and accessing feedback, please see the ELMA wiki at https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/SPSITWiki/ELMA. Further detailed guidance on the essay deadline and a link to the wiki and submission page will be available on the course Learn page. The wiki is the primary source of information on how to submit your work correctly and provides advice on approved file formats, uploading cover sheets and how to name your files correctly. When you submit your work electronically, you will be asked to tick a box confirming that your work complies with university regulations on plagiarism. This confirms that the work you have submitted is your own. Occasionally, there can be technical problems with a submission. We request that you monitor your university student email account in the 24 hours following the deadline for submitting your work. If there are any problems with your submission the course secretary will email you at this stage. We undertake to return all coursework within 15 working days of submission. This time is needed for marking, moderation, second marking and input of results. If there are any unanticipated delays, it is the course organiser’s responsibility to inform you of the reasons.

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All our coursework is assessed anonymously to ensure fairness: to faciliate this process put your Examination number (on your student card), not your name or student number, on your coursework or cover sheet The Operation of Lateness Penalties Unlike in Years 1 and 2, NO EXTENSIONS ARE GRANTED WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR ANY ASSESSED WORK AT HONOURS LEVEL. Managing deadlines is a basic life-skill that you are expected to have acquired by the time you reach Honours. Timely submission of all assessed items (coursework, essays, project reports, etc.) is a vitally important responsibility at this stage in your university career. Unexcused lateness can put at risk your prospects of proceeding to Senior Honours and can damage your final degree grade. If you miss the submission deadline for any piece of assessed work 5 marks will be deducted for each calendar day that work is late, up to a maximum of five calendar days (25 marks). Thereafter, a mark of zero will be recorded. There is no grace period for lateness and penalties begin to apply immediately following the deadline. For example, if the deadline is Tuesday at 12 noon, work submitted on Tuesday at 12.01pm will be marked as one day late, work submitted at 12.01pm on Wednesday will be marked as two days late, and so on. Failure to submit an item of assessed work will result in a mark of zero, with potentially very serious consequences for your overall degree class, or no degree at all. It is therefore always in your interest to submit work, even if very late. Please be aware that all work submitted is returned to students with a provisional mark and without applicable penalties in the first instance. The mark you receive on ELMA is therefore subject to change following the consideration of the Lateness Penalty Waiver Panel (please see below for further information) and the Board of Examiners. How to Submit a Lateness Penalty Waiver Form If there are extenuating circumstances beyond your control which make it essential for you to submit work after the deadline you must fill in a ‘Lateness Penalty Waiver’ (LPW) form to state the reason for your lateness. This is a request for any applicable penalties to be removed and will be considered by the Lateness Penalty Waiver Panel. Before submitting an LPW, please consider carefully whether your circumstances are (or were) significant enough to justify the lateness. Such circumstances should be serious and exceptional (e.g. not a common cold or a heavy workload). Computer failures are not regarded as justifiable reason for late submission. You are expected to regularly back-up your work and allow sufficient time for uploading it to ELMA. You should submit the LPW form and supply an expected date of submission as soon as you are able to do so, and preferably before the deadline. Depending on the circumstances, supporting documentation may be required, so please be prepared to provide this where possible. LPW forms can be found in a folder outside your SSO’s office, on online at: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/undergrad/on_course_students/assessment_and_regulations/coursework_requirements/coursework_requirements_honours Forms should be returned by email or, if possible, in person to your SSO. They will sign the form to indicate receipt and will be able to advise you if you would like further guidance or support. Please Note: Signing the LPW form by either your SSO or Personal Tutor only indicates acknowledgment of the request, not the waiving of lateness penalties. Final decisions on all marks rest with Examination Boards.

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There is a dedicated SSO for students in each subject area in SPS. To find out who your SSO is, and how to contact them, please find your home subject area on the table below:

Subject Area Name of SSO Email Phone Office

Politics

TBA TBA TBA TBA

International Relations

Rebecca Shade

[email protected] 0131 651 3896

Room 1.10, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Social Anthropology

Vanessa Feldberg

[email protected] 0131 650 3933

Room 1.04, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Social Policy Louise Angus [email protected] 0131 650 3923

Room 1.08, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Social Work Jane Marshall [email protected] 0131 650 3912

Room 1.07, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Sociology Claire Moggie [email protected] 0131 651 1306

Room 1.03, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Sustainable Development

Sue Renton [email protected] 0131 650 6958

Room 1.09, Chrystal MacMillan Building

If you are a student from another School, you should submit your LPW to the SSO for the subject area of the course. Until an SSO is confirmed for Politics, please contact Rebecca Shade in the first instance.

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FEEDBACK

All coursework will be marked and returned to students via the Electronic Marking system (ELMA) within 3 weeks of the submission date (i.e. by Thursday 26 March 2015).

The exam will be held in May 2015, and exam marks are usually finalised and released to students after the exam boards in the first week of June.

Since 2008-2009, Politics and IR students receive generalised feedback on their exam performance. Generalised feedback will be posted on the course Learn page by 30 June 2015.

You have the option of getting brief verbal feedback on individual exam scripts once they have been marked. In order to do this you must request it from me in my Guidance & Feedback hours within three weeks of the following semester (i.e. by 16 October 2015). You will not be able to request it after this date.

If you would like to see your exam script after the final marks have been published then you should contact the course secretary by email to arrange a time to do this. Please note that there will be no feedback comments written on the scripts, but you may find it useful to look at what you wrote, and see the marks achieved for each individual question. You will not be permitted to keep the exam script but you are welcome to take it away to read over or make photocopies. If you wish to do this please bring a form of ID that can be left at the office until you return the script. Please note that scripts cannot be taken away overnight.

There will be dedicated feedback sessions to discuss your essays and progress in the tutorial participation element of the course in Week 7 (week beginning 23 February 2015). Details to follow.

I encourage you to discuss any issues relating to the course with me directly in my regular Guidance & Feedback hours (Wednesdays 1000-1200). You do not need an appointment to meet me at this time although please note that some periods (e.g. near essay deadlines) can get busy. I am deluged with emails (sometimes over 100 emails a day) and so I would encourage you NOT to email me unless urgent, but to see me face-to-face in my assigned hours. In particular, I will not answer any emails about essays in the week before the essay deadline (i.e. after Friday 27 February). You will have extended office hours in the week before the essay to discuss these issues with me instead).

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ESSAY QUESTIONS

You may choose any question from the list below. Essays may rely on lectures and seminar material for background, but you should not quote from these direct and it is expected that you will read widely and emphasise your original thoughts. Full attention must be given to proper spelling, grammar, referencing, and format.

1. How and why does the legacy of the Soviet Union affect contemporary Russian politics?

2. To what degree do so-called ‘clan’ politics influence the

policies of the Russian executive?

3. How has Russian economic performance affected its domestic politics since 1990?

4. Why is the Russian parliament (Federal Assembly) so weak?

5. To what degree have the federal authorities resolved the

problems that have beset the North Caucasus in the post-Soviet era?

6. Explain the dominance of United Russia over the Russian

party system since 2003.

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READINGS Purchase of at least one of the core texts is essential. They are usually available at local bookshops, especially Word Power (www.word-power.co.uk) and Blackwells (http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/readinglists/displaylist.jsp?fm_course=18387).

Core textbooks

Eric Shiraev, Russian Government and Politics (2nd edn, 2013)

Stephen White, Richard Sakwa, Henry E. Hale (eds.), Developments in Russian Politics 8 (2014)

Supplementary texts

Catherine Danks, Politics Russia (2009) (Basic introduction)

Eric Shiraev, Russian Government and Politics (2010) (Also good overview)

Edwin Bacon, Contemporary Russia (3rd edition 2014) (Good basic background text)

Graeme Gill and James Young (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society (2012)

Thomas Remington, Politics of Russia (6th edition, 2010)

Stephen K. Wegren, After Putin’s Russia (4th edition, 2009)

Joel M. Ostrow (ed.) Politics in Russia: A Reader (2013)

Richard Sakwa, Putin: Russia's Choice (2nd edn, 2008)

Richard Sakwa, Russian Politics and Society (4th edn, 2008)

Richard Sakwa, The Crisis of Russian Democracy (2011)

Richard Sakwa, Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014)

David Kotz and Fred Weir, Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia (2007)

Stephen White, Richard Sakwa & Henry E. Hale (eds.) Developments in Russian Politics 7 (2010)

Stephen White, Understanding Russian Politics (2011)

Soviet politics For time considerations we cannot go much into the Soviet past, but some knowledge of Soviet history is a definite asset. Relevant introductory texts include:

David R. Marples, The Collapse of the Soviet Union 1985-1991

Archie Brown, Seven Years that Shook the World: Perestroika in Perspective

Richard Sakwa, Gorbachev and his Reforms, 1985-1990

Stephen White Gorbachev and After, or After Gorbachev

Mary Buckley, Redefining Russian Society and Polity

Rachel Walker, Six Years that Shook the World

Mary McAuley, Soviet Politics 1917-1991

Richard Sakwa, Soviet Politics in Perspective

Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment

Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to End This reading list is by no means exhaustive, as new sources are emerging all the time. Please check the library catalogue for updates throughout the year. If Edinburgh University Library has not yet catalogued recent acquisitions, please look in the National Library of Scotland (www.nls.uk). If you spot any useful book that the library does not have, please alert me and I will order it.

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Journals Because of the rapid changes in Russia and the former Soviet Union, it is important that you stay up-to-date with recent developments. Most useful for this is the Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (which contains English translations of the Russian press). The most relevant academic journals are: Europe-Asia Studies; Post-Soviet Affairs; Slavic Review; Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Communist and post-Communist Studies; BJPS; APSR; World Politics; Foreign Affairs, New Left Review and RFE/RL Research Report (until August 1994). The best UK press coverage of current Russian politics is usually found in either The Financial Times or (with reservations) The Economist.

E-journals

Increasingly, many useful journals are 'e-journals' which means articles from them can be directly downloaded through the library's website. Go directly to this website: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/resources/collections/serials/ejintro.shtml for an alphabetical listing of e-journals. Most issues of the following relevant journals are currently available as e-journals

British Journal of Political Science

Communist and post-Communist Studies

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

East European Politics (formerly Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics)

Europe-Asia Studies

International Affairs

Journal of Democracy

Journal of Politics

Parliamentary Affairs

Politics

Political Quarterly

Political Studies

Post-Soviet Affairs

West European Politics

The Internet The Russian internet (Runet) is very rich with political sites. Unfortunately, most of these are not available in English. A list of the most accessible English-language websites is attached in Appendix 2. Please note that websites vary immensely in quality, credibility and reliability. Some of the online analysis of Russia is extremely good. Other sites are useful for up-to-date interpretation of certain political events, but are seldom as analytical as the ‘hard copy’ sources used in this handout. Use them as supplementary sources, not your main ones.

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WEEKLY TOPICS As a general rule, you must read a relevant chapter from a core textbook and at least three additional items from the core reading for each week, in order to respond constructively to class discussions and contribute well to the tutorial participation exercises. The most vital texts are indicated with an asterisk (*). Supplementary reading is essential for essays or when core reading is unavailable, and students will be given credit for imaginative use of sources. Students are not expected to read every item from the supplementary reading (see it more as a menu), but to select materials on topics that fit their interests. Key: [e-journal]: Available as e-journal through University library catalogue by journal

title search or e-journals page: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/find-ejournal/search-ejourn

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION (12 Jan)

Lecture: General introduction to course/Political culture mini-lecture No seminars

Core readings on political culture Edwin Bacon Contemporary Russia (chapter 8) Frederic Fleron 'Post-Soviet political culture in Russia: an assessment of recent

empirical investigations,' Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, March 1996, pp. 225-260 [e-journal]*

Alexander Lukin ‘Russia's New Authoritarianism and the Post-Soviet Political Ideal’, Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 25, no. 1, 2009 [e-journal]* (also used in week 10)*

Ol’ga Malinova ‘Political Culture” in Russian Scholarly and Public Discourse’, Russian Politics and Law, vol. 45, no. 3, May–June 2007, pp. 31–61. [e-journal]*

William Mishler and ‘Generation, Age, and Time: The Dynamics of Political Learning Richard Rose during Russia's Transformation’, American Journal of Political

Science, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 822–834, 2007 [e-journal] Thomas F. Remington Politics in Russia (2012) chapter 5* Richard Sakwa Russian Politics and Society (chapter 15)* Stephen White Understanding Russian Politics (chapter 7) Stephen White ‘Soviet nostalgia and Russian politics’, Journal of Eurasian Studies,

vol. 1, no. 2, January 2010, Pages 1–9. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366509000049

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Supplementary reading Russell Bova 'Political culture, authority patterns, and the architecture of the new

Russian democracy', in Harry Eckstein et. al., Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?, pp. 177-200

Russell Bova Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters (esp. chapter 7 by Russell Bova ‘Democracy and Russian Political Culture, pp. 243-276 and Philip Grier, ‘The Russian Idea and the West’, pp. 23-77).

Archie Brown (ed.) Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader, chapters 20, 22

Timothy J. Colton ‘Are Russians Undemocratic?’, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Michael McFaul No. 2, April-June 2002, pp. 91-121 [e-journal]

D. Bahry ‘Comrades into citizens? Russian political culture and public support for the transition’, Slavic Review, vol. 58, no. 4, 1999 [e-journal]

Frederick C Barghoorn 'Soviet Russia: Orthodoxy and adaptiveness' in Lucian Pye et. al., Political Culture and Political Development, pp. 450-511

Archie Brown Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States and Jack Gray (eds.) (esp. ‘Introduction’, chapter 2) Harry Eckstein ‘A culturalist theory of political change’, American Political Science

Review, vol. 82, no. 3, 1988, pp. 789-904, and discussion in APSR, vol. 84. no. 1, 1990, pp. 249-258 [e-journal]

James Gibson ‘Becoming tolerant? Short-term changes in Russian political culture’, British Journal of Political Science, Apr 2002, Vol.32, No.2, pp.309-334 [e-journal]

Ruth Lane ‘Political culture: residual category or general theory?’, Comparative Political Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, 1992, pp. 362-387

Allen C. Lynch How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development, Chapter 1, pp. 18-46. Also relevant: chapter 2 47-84*

Post-Soviet Affairs Vol, 14, no. 3, 1998 (whole issue–articles by Bunce, Steven Fish, Miller et al)

Tim McDaniel The Agony of the Russian Idea

Vladimir Petukhov ‘Public Attitudes About Democracy’ in McFaul, Petrov and Andrei Ryabov Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform, chapter 11 pp. 268-291

Viktor Sergeyev &

N. Biryukov Russia's Road to Democracy

Robert C Tucker 'What time is it in Russia's history?' in Catherine Merridale & Chris Ward (eds.) Perestroika in Historical Perspective

Michael Urban Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia [e-book]

Stephen White Political Culture and Soviet Politics (partic. chapters 1-4)

Stephen Whitefield (ed.) Political Culture and Post-Communism (partic chapters 2. 3.)

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WEEK 2: THE SOVIET SYSTEM (19 Jan)

Lecture: The USSR: origins, structures, development Seminar: Approaches to the Soviet system

Was the USSR a ‘totalitarian’ state?

Core reading Valerie Bunce & John Echols 'From Soviet Studies to Comparative Studies: The Unfinished

Revolution', Soviet Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 January 1979, pp 43-55 [e-journal]

Vincent Barnett ‘Understanding Stalinism: The ‘Orwellian discrepancy’ and the ‘rational choice dictator’ Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2006, pp. 457-467 [e-journal]

Allen Kassof ‘The Administered Society: Totalitarianism without Terror’, World Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1964, pp. 558-575 [e-journal]*

Frederic J. Fleron and

Erik Hoffman Post-Communist States and Political Science (look at chapters 1-7)

Rasma Karklins ‘Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 1994 [e-journal]* (also used next week)

Peter Kneen 'Reconceptualizing the Soviet System: Pluralism, Totalitarianism and Science', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 28-50 [e-journal]

Richard Sakwa Soviet Politics in Perspective, esp. chapter 10 [e-book]*

Supplementary reading John Armstrong 'New essays in Sovietological Introspection', Post-Soviet Affairs, vol.

9, April/June 1993, pp. 171-75

David Benn ‘Hitlerism and Stalinism: Comparisons and explanations’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2, 2006, pp. 291-299 [e-journal]

Archie Brown Soviet Politics and Political Science Archie Brown ‘Political power and the Soviet state: Western and Soviet

perspectives’, in Neil Harding (ed.), The State in Socialist Society Valerie Bunce 'The Political Economy of the Brezhnev era: the Rise and Fall of

Corporatism', BJPS, vol. 13, April 1983, pp. 129-158 [e-journal] Robert Burrowes 'Totalitarianism: The Revised Standard Version', World Politics 22,

January 1969, pp 272-294 [e-journal] Michael Cox (ed.) Rethinking the Soviet Collapse (browse chapters 1-6). Chapter 2 pp

32-50 Tony Cliff State Capitalism in Russia Frederic J Fleron Jr (ed.) Communist Studies and the Social Sciences Carl J Friedrich & Zbigniew K Brzezinski Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy H Gordon Skilling & Franklyn Griffiths (eds.) Interest Groups and Soviet Politics David Lane The Socialist Industrial State (esp. chapters 1-3) Moshe Lewin The Making of the Soviet System (chapters 9-12)

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Juan J. Linz Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes Richard Lowenthal 'Development versus Utopia in Communist policy' in Chalmers

Johnson (ed.) Change in Communist Systems, pp 33-116 Roy Medvedev On Socialist Democracy Alfred Meyer 'Observations on the travails of Sovietology,’ Post-Soviet Affairs, vol.

10, no. 2, April-June 1994, pp. 191-195 T H Rigby ‘Reconceptualising the Soviet system’, chapter 14 in White et al.

(eds.), Developments in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics (1992) Jeremy Smith The Fall of Soviet Communism, 1986-1991, partic. Part. 1 pp. 7-30 Susan Gross Solomon Pluralism in the Soviet Union chaps. 3 and 5 Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed: The Soviet Union, What it is and Where it

is Going Chris Ward Stalin's Russia (chapters 4 and 6) Michael E. Urban ‘Conceptualising political power in the USSR: patterns of binding and

bonding’, Studies in Comparative Communism, vol. XVIII, no. 4, 1985, pp. 207-226

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WEEK 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY (26 Jan)

Lecture: The politics of Russian economic reform

Seminar: ‘Clans’, oligarchs and the Russian executive

Who are the ‘clans’ and ‘oligarchs’ in Russian politics and what is the nature of their influence over the Russian executive?

Core reading Richard Sakwa The Crisis of Russian Democracy, chapters 3 and 4 [e-book]* White, Pravda et al Developments in Russian Politics 7, chapters 2, 11* Daniel Treisman ‘Putin’s Silovarchs’, Orbis, Vol. 51, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp.141- 153 [e-journal]* Philip Hanson & ‘Big Business and the State in Russia’ Elizabeth Teague Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 57, no. 5, 2005, pp. 657- 681 [e-journal] Ol'ga Kryshtanovskaya ‘Inside the Putin court: A Research Note’ & Stephen White Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 57, no. 7, 2005, pp. 1065- 1077 [e-

journal]*

Alena Ledeneva Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, esp. Chapter 1 [e-book]

Bettina Renz ‘Putin’s militocracy?: An alternative interpretation of the role of Siloviki in contemporary Russian politics’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 58, no. 6, 2006, pp. 903-924 [e-journal]*

Oxana Gaman-Golutvina ‘Changes in Elite Patterns’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol 60, no. 6, 2008, pp. 1033-1050 [e-journal]

Ol'ga Kryshtanovskaya ‘The Sovietization of Russian Politics’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. and Stephen White 25, No. 4, October-December 2009 [e-journal]* David W. Rivera & ‘Is Russia a militocracy? Conceptual issues and extant findings Sharon Werning Rivera regarding elite militarization’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 30:1, 2014, pp. 27-

50 [e-journal] For latest updates see recent issues of Current Digest of Post-Soviet Press, RFE/RL

Newsline and Johnson’s Russia List (e.g. search for ‘Khodorkovsky’ and ‘siloviki’).

Supplementary reading Richard Sakwa Putin: Russia's Choice (2008 edn) pp. 71-79, 143-50, ch. 9

Edwin Bacon Contemporary Russia, chapter 5

Victoria Bonnell and

George Breslauer (eds.) Russia in the New Century, parts II and III

Archie Brown (ed.) Contemporary Russian Politics: a Reader, Section 6 Chrystia Freeland Sale of the Century Thane Gustafson Capitalism Russian-Style, chapters 5-7 Dale Herspring Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, chapters 6 and 7 David Hoffman The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia Paul Klebnikov Godfather of the Kremlin

Alena Ledeneva Russia's Economy of Favours

Michael S. Poulton ‘Russian Business: The Warp and Weave of Its History’ in Russell Bova (ed.) Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters, chapter 8

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Peter Rutland ‘Business and Civil Society in Russia’ in Alfred B. Evans et al. (eds) Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment, pp 74-94

Peter Rutland Business and the State in Contemporary Russia

Peter Rutland ‘Putin’s Economic Record: Is the Oil Boom Sustainable?, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 60, no.6, 2008, pp. 1051-1072 [e-journal]

Vladimir Shlapentokh ‘Wealth Versus Political Power: The Russian Case’ Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2004. pp. 135-160 [e-journal]

William Tompson ‘The Russian economy under Vladimir Putin’ in Cameron Ross (ed.) Russian politics under Putin, chapter 7

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WEEK 4: LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE (2 Feb)

Lecture: The evolution of executive-legislative relations in Russia

Seminar: Putin, Medvedev and the evolution of executive-legislative relations

Is it accurate to characterise the Russian executive as a ‘super-presidential’ system?

Core reading Alexander Baturo & ‘Reading the Tea Leaves: Medvedev's Presidency through Slava Mikhaylov Political Rhetoric of Federal and Sub-National Actors’, Europe-Asia

Studies, 66:6, 2014, pp. 969-992 [e-journal] Paul Chaisty ‘Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President

Relations in Putin’s Russia’, in Alex Pravda (ed.), Leading Russia—Putin in Perspective: Essays in Honour of Archie Brown, pp. 119-138 [e-book]*

Gerald M. Easter 'Preference for Presidentialism: post-communist regime change in Russia and the NIS,’ World Politics, vol. 49, no. 2, 1997, pp. 184-211 [e-journal]*

M. Steven Fish ‘The executive deception: superpresidentialism and the degradation of Russian politics’, in Sperling V. (ed.), Building the Russian State [e-book]*

Andrew Monaghan ‘The vertikal: power and authority in Russia’, International Affairs, vol. 88, no. 1 (2012), pp. 1–16 [e-journal]*

Thomas Remington ‘Patronage and the party of power: President-Parliamentary relations under Vladimir Putin’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 60, no. 6, 2008, pp. 959-988 [e-journal]

Richard Sakwa Putin Redux, chapters 4/5

Supplementary reading Edwin Bacon Contemporary Russia, chapter 4 Archie Brown (ed.) Contemporary Russian Politics: a Reader, chapters 4-8 Eugene Huskey Presidential Power in Russia, (esp. chs. 2-4, 6) Juan Linz ‘Presidentialism or parliamentarism: does it make a difference?’ in

Linz & Arturo Valenzuela (eds.), The Failure of Presidential Democracy, pp. 3-42

Juan Linz 'Some thoughts on presidentialism in postcommunist Europe,' in Ray Taras, (ed.), Postcommunist Presidents, pp. 1-14

Thomas F. Remington ‘The evolution of executive-legislative relations in Russia since 1993’, Slavic Review, vol. 59, no. 3, 2000 [e-journal]

Thomas F. Remington The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime

Thomas F. Remington ‘Majorities without Mandates: The Russian Federation Council since 2000’ Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 55, No. 5, July 2003 [e-journal]

Andrei Ryabov ‘Legislative-Executive Relations’, in McFaul, Petrov and Ryabov, Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform, Chapter Four

Richard Sakwa Russian Politics and Society, 4th edition (contains text of Russian constitution).

Steve Smith & T. F. Remington The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian

State Duma

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Raymond Taras 'Separating power: keeping presidents in check,' in R. Taras (ed.), Postcommunist Presidents, pp. 15-37

Stephen White 'Russia: presidential leadership under Yeltsin,' in R. Taras, (ed.) Post communist Presidents, pp. 38-66

Stephen White et al. (eds.) Developments in Russian Politics 7, chapters 2 and 3

Tiffany Troxel Parliamentary Power In Russia, 1994-2001

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WEEK 5: CENTRE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS (9 Feb)

Lecture: Centre-periphery relations Seminar: Chechnya and the North Caucasus

What are the chief problems in the North Caucasus and how effective have Russia’s policies been at resolving them?

Core reading Aurélie Campana & ‘A Political Sociology Approach to the Diffusion of Conflict from Jean-François Ratelle Chechnya to Dagestan and Ingushetia’, Studies in Conflict &

Terrorism, 37:2, 2014, pp. 115-134 [e-journal]* Roland Dannreuther ‘Islamic radicalization in Russia: an assessment’, International

Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 1, (2010) pp.109–126 [e-journal]* Roland Dannreuther ‘Chechnya: Has Moscow Won?’ and Luke March Survival, vol. 50, no. 4, 2008 [e-journal] Roland Danreuther Russia and Islam: State, society and radicalism and Luke March (esp. chapters 8-11)* [e-book] Geraldine Fagan ‘A word of justice: Islam and state repression in the North-West

Caucasus’, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2014, pp. 29-46 [e-journal]*

Emil Souleimanov ‘The Internationalisation of the Russian-Chechen and Ondrej Ditrych Conflict: Myths and Reality’, Europe-Asia Studies,

vol. 60, no. 7, 2008 [e-journal] Charles King and ‘Prisoners of the Caucasus: Russia's Invisible Civil War’ Rajan Menon Foreign Affairs July/August 2010 [e-journal]* Alexei Malashenko ‘ The Dynamics of Russian Islam’, Valdai Discussion Club,

http://valdaiclub.com/politics/54680.html (other articles by this author also useful).

Supplementary reading Dilshod Achilov and ‘State Regulation of Religion and Radicalism in the Renat Shaykhutdinov Post-Communist Muslim Republics’, Problems of Post-Communism,

vol. 60, no. 5, September–October 2013, pp. 17–33 [e-journal] Robert Bruce Ware (ed.) The Fire Below: How the Caucasus Shaped Russia John B. Dunlop ‘Chaos in the North Caucasus and Russia's future’ and Rajan Menon Survival, vol. 48, no. 2, 2006 [e-journal] *

John B. Dunlop Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict

Dov Lynch ‘The Enemy is at the Gate’: Russia after Beslan’ International Affairs, January 2005, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 141-161 [e-journal]

R Seely Russo-Chechen Relations 1800-2000: a Deadly Embrace

Gordon M. Hahn ‘The Jihadi Insurgency and the Russian Counterinsurgency in the North Caucasus’, Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan-March, 2008 [e-journal]

Elena Chebankova ‘The Limitations of Central Authority in the Regions and the Implications for the Evolution of Russia's Federal System’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol 57, No. 7, 2005, pp. 933-951 [e-journal]

Tracey German Russia's Chechen War Matthew Evangelista The Chechen Wars

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Matthew Evangelista ‘Is Putin the New de Gaulle? A Comparison of the Chechen and Algerian Wars’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 4, October-December 2005, pp. 360-377

Gordon M. Hahn Russia’s Islamic Threat Richard Sakwa Putin: Russia's Choice, chapter 8 Richard Sakwa Chechnya: From Past to Future McFaul et al. Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist

Political Reform, chapter 9 ‘Federalism’ by Nikolai Petrov Archie Brown (ed.) Contemporary Russian Politics: a Reader, section 9 Richard Sakwa Russian Politics and Society (3rd edn.), chapters 9, 10 Richard Sakwa Chechnya: From the Past to the Future John Russell ‘Obstacles to peace in Chechnya: What scope for international

involvement?’ Europe-Asia Studies, September 2006, Vol. 58 No. 6, pp. 941–964 [e-journal]

John Russell ‘Chechnya: Russia's 'war on terror' or 'war of terror'? Europe-Asia Studies; January 2007, Vol. 59 No. 1, pp 163–168 [e-journal]

Anatol Lieven Chechnya: Tombstone of Soviet Power Dmitri Trenin and Russia’s Restless Frontier, the Chechnya Factor Alexei Malashenko Domitilla Sagramoso ‘Violence and conflict in the Russian North Caucasus International

Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 4, July 2007, pp. 681-705 [e-journal] Julie Wilhelmsen ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen

Separatist Movement’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 57, no. 1, 2005, pp. 35-60 [e-journal]

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WEEK 6 (16-20 FEBRUARY 2015) IS INNOVATIVE LEARNING WEEK

There will be no classes this week except the DVD session below,

but there will be a number of interesting School activities you should attend. Any Russia-related activities will be announced via

the Learn page. In addition, you should use this week to review your progress so far, target any readings you have not read or do not understand, and to prepare issues for discussion in the extended feedback

sessions in Week 7.

DVD SESSION

Thursday 19 February 10-12, CMB Seminar Room 6

DVD title TBC

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WEEK 7: ELECTIONS AND THE PARTY SYSTEM (23 Feb)

Lecture: Russian elections Seminar: Political parties

How can one best characterise the party system in Russia? Consider the following parties in terms of ideology, structure and electorate, relative success and reasons for it: a) the Communist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party; b) United Russia and Just Russia

Core reading Russian parties (general background). See also relevant party chapters in the textbooks Edwin Bacon ‘Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia's political

system’, East European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2012 [e-journal]* Vladimir Gel’man ‘Party Politics in Russia: From Competition to Hierarchy’, Europe-

Asia Studies, vol. 60, no. 6, 2008 [e-journal]* Grigorii V. Golosov ‘Co-optation in the process of dominant party system building: the

case of Russia’, East European Politics, 30:2, 2014, pp. 271-285 [e-journal]

Richard Sakwa ‘Party and power: between representation and mobilisation in contemporary Russia’, East European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2012) [e-journal]*

David White ‘Reconceptualising Russian Party Politics’, East European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2012 [e-journal]*

Kenneth Wilson ‘Party-System Development Under Putin’, Post Soviet Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2006, pp. 314-348 [e-journal]

Specific parties (select according to party chosen): Ora John Reuter and ‘Dominant Party Regimes and the Commitment Problem: Thomas F. Remington The Case of United Russia’, Comparative Political Studies, April 2009 vol. 42 no. 4 501-526 [e-journal] Sean P. Roberts ‘United Russia and the dominant-party framework: understanding the

Russian party of power in comparative perspective’, East European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2012 [e-journal]*

Sean P. Roberts Putin's United Russia Party Regina Smyth et. al ‘Engineering Victory: Institutional Reform, Informal Institutions, and

the Formation of a Hegemonic Party Regime in the Russian Federation’, Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 23, no.2, 2007 [e-journal]

Darrell Slider ‘How United is United Russia? Regional Sources of Intra-party Conflict’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Volume 26, Issue 2 2010 , pages 257 -275 [e-journal]

Luke March The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia Luke March ‘The Russian Left after Communism,’ Journal of Communist Studies

and Transition Politics Vol. 22, No. 4, December 2006 [e-journal] Luke March ‘Communism’ in Graeme Gill (ed) Handbook of Russian Politics and

Society [e-book] Luke March ‘Managing opposition in a hybrid regime: Just Russia and parastatal

opposition’, Slavic Review, 68:3, 2009, pp. 504-527 [e-journal]

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Luke March ‘The Russian Duma ‘opposition’: No drama out of crisis?’ East European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2012 [e-journal – on Communists, Just Russia and Liberal Democratic Party]*

Judith Devlin Slavophiles and Commissars (for communists and LDPR) Marlene Laruelle In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary

Russia (for CPRF, LDPR and United Russia) Andrew Wilson Virtual Democracy: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World,

chapters 8 and 9. Stephen Wegren and ‘Prospects for Managed Democracy in Russia’ Andrew Konitzer Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 59, no. 6, 2007 [e-journal]

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WEEK 8: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY (2 March)

Lecture: Civil society, uncivil society and quasi-civil society Seminar: Social change in contemporary Russia

Have the 2011-2012 elections catalysed a new era of social activism in Russia?

Core reading Mikhail Dmitriev ‘The Other Russia: Discontent grows in the hinterlands’, and Daniel Treisman Foreign Affairs, September/October 2012 [e-journal]* Yury Dzhibladze ‘Russian government declares ‘cold war’ on civil society’,

OpenDemocracy, 21 August 2012: http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/yury-dzhibladze/russian-government-declares-%E2%80%98cold-war%E2%80%99-on-civil-society

Vladimir Gel’man ‘Cracks in the wall. Challenges to electoral authoritarianism in Russia’, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2013, pp.3-10 [e-journal]*

Samuel Greene ‘Beyond Bolotnaya. Bridging Old and New in Russia’s Election Protest Movement’, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2013, pp.40-52 [e-journal]*

Gordon Hahn ‘Perestroyka 2.0: toward non-revolutionary regime transformation in Russia?, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 28, No.4, pp. 472-515 [e-journal]*

Karrie Koesel ‘Putin, popular protests and political trajectories in Russia: and Valerie Bunce. a comparative perspective’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp.

403-423 [e-journal]* Andrew Monaghan ‘The End of the Putin Era?’, Carnegie Paper, available at:

http://carnegieeurope.eu/publications/?fa=48919&lang=en* Graeme Robertson ‘Protesting Putinism. The election protests of 2011-2012 in broader

perspective’, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 11-23 [e-journal]*

Richard Sakwa Putin Redux, chapter 8 Denis Volkov, ‘The protesters and the public’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 3.

2012, pp. 55-62.

Supplementary reading Anna Aratunyan ‘Pussy Riot: Are Russians paying attention?’, Russia Beyond the

Headlines, August 27, 2012, http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/27/pussy_riot_are_russians_paying_attention_17693.html

Maya Atwal & ‘The youth movement Nashi: contentious politics, civil society Edwin Bacon and party politics’, East European Politics, 28:3, (2012): 256-266 [e-

journal] Edwin Bacon Contemporary Russia (2nd edition), chapter 6 Paul Chaisty & ‘Forward to democracy or back to authoritarianism? The attitudinal Stephen Whitefield bases of mass support for the Russian election protests of 2011–

2012’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 29:5, 2014, pp. 387-403 [e-journal] Elena Chebankova ‘State-sponsored civic associations in Russia: systemic integration or

the ‘war of position’?, East European Politics, (2012) [e-journal]

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Alfred B. Evans et al. (eds) Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment, partic. Ch. 18 Alfred B. Evans ‘Russian Society and the State?, in Stephen White,, Richard Sakwa

and Henry Hale (eds.) Developments in Russian Politics 7, chapter 6 Graeme Gill and Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society, chapter 30 James Young (chapters 25-28 and 33 also useful) Human Rights Watch ‘Acting Up: Russia’s Civil Society’. Available at:

http://www.hrw.org/features/russia-civil-society Debra Javeline and ‘Rethinking Russia: A Balanced Assessment of Russian Civil S. Lindemann-Komarova Society’, Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2010, pp.171-

188. Available at: http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/balanced-assessment-russian-civil-society

Ben Judah Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin Lilia Ovcharova ‘Russia’s middle class: at the centre or on the periphery of Russian

politics?’, European Union Institute for Security Studies, 16 February 2012: http://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/detail/article/russias-middle-class-at-the-centre-or-on-the-periphery-of-russian-politics/

Thomas Remington Politics in Russia (2010), chapter 4 Thomas Remington ‘The Russian Middle Class as Policy Objective’, National Council for

Eurasian and East European Research Working Paper, http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2010_825-06_Remington.pdf

Neil Robinson ‘Russia’s response to crisis: the paradox of success’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2012, pp. 450-472 [e-journal]

Simon Saradzhyan and ‘Putin, the protest movement and political change in Russia’, Nabi Abdullaev European Union Institute for Security Studies, 17 February 2012:

http://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/detail/article/putin-the-protest-movement-and-political-change-in-russia/

Lilia Shevtsova ‘Russia under Putin: Titanic looking for its iceberg? Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 45, pp. 209-216 [e-journal]

Regina Smyth et al. ‘A well-organised play. Symbolic politics and the effect of the pro-Putin rallies’, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 24-39 [e-journal]

Valerie Sperling ‘Nashi Devushki: Gender and Political Youth Activism in Putin's and Medvedev's Russia’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 28:2, 2012 [e-journal]

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WEEK 9: RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE WEST (9 March)

Lecture: The evolution of Russian foreign policy

Seminar: How to conceptualise Russian foreign policy

Still the riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma? Conceptualising the drivers of contemporary Russian foreign policy

Core reading Derek Averre ‘Competing Rationalities: Russia, the EU and the ‘Shared

Neighbourhood’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 No.10, 2009, pp. 1689 -1713 [e-journal]

Luke March ‘Nationalism for Export? The Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications of the new 'Russian Idea'’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 64, No. 3, 2012, pp. 401-42 [e-journal]*

Viatcheslav Morozov ‘Subaltern Empire? Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Russian Foreign Policy’, Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 60, no. 6, November–December 2013, pp. 16–28 [e-journal]

Andrew Monaghan ‘“An enemy at the gates'” or “from victory to victory'”, Russian foreign policy’’, International Affairs, Vol. 84 No. 4, 2008, pp. 717 – 733 [e-journal]*

Richard Sakwa ‘“New Cold War”or twenty years' crisis? Russia and international politics’, International Affairs, Vol. 84, no. 2, 2008, pp. 241 – 267 [e-journal]*

Angela Stent ‘Restoration and Revolution in Putin’s Foreign Policy’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, no. 6, 2008 [e-journal]*

Supplementary reading Hiski Haukkala ‘Lost in Translation? Why the EU has Failed to Influence Russia's

Development’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 No.10, 2010, pp. 1757–1775 [e-journal]

Vinod K. K. Aggarwal Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and and Kristi Govella Responses from the European Union and the United States [e-book:

chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 all relevant ]*

Vladimir Baranovsky ‘Russia: a part of Europe or apart from Europe?’, International

Affairs, volume 76, no. 3, 2000, pp. 443-458 [e-journal] Jackie Gower ‘European Union-Russia relations at the end of the Putin presidency’,

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 16 No. 2, (2008) pp. 161-7 [e-journal]. Other articles in this issue also relevant.

Jackie Gower and ‘Russia and Europe: An Uneasy Partnership’, in Graeme Timmins Jackie Gower and Graeme Timmins, Russia and Europe in the

Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership, pp. 289-300 Learn Marcel de Haas Russia's foreign security policy in the 21st century: Putin, Medvedev

and beyond

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Andreas Heinrich ‘Under the Kremlin's Thumb: Does Increased State Control in the Russian Gas Sector Endanger European Energy Security?’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, No 9 , 2008 , pp. 1539 - 1574 [e-journal]

Robert Legvold ‘The Russia File’. Foreign Affairs, July-Aug 2009 [e-journal]

Robert Legvold (ed.) Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century & The Shadow of the Past

Anatol Lieven and

Dmitri Trenin Ambivalent Neighbours: The EU, NATO and the Price of Membership

Bobo Lo Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy

Edward Lucas The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West

Fyodor Lukyanov ‘Russia-EU: The Partnership that went Astray’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, no. 6, 2008 [e-journal]

Allen C Lynch ‘The realism of Russia’s foreign policy’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, 2001 pp. 7-31 [e-journal]

Neil Macfarlane ‘The 'R' in BRICs: Is Russia an Emerging Power? International Affairs, vol. 82 no. 1, 2006, pp. 41-57 [e-journal]

Katlijn Malfliet et al. (eds.) The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges of Integration Luke March ‘Security Strategy and the Russia problem’, in Roland Dannreuther

and John Peterson (eds.), Security Strategy and Transatlantic Relations, pp. 97-114 [e-book]

Sergei Medvedev ‘The Stalemate in EU-Russia Relations’ in Ted Hopf (ed). Russia’s European Choice, pp. 215-232 Learn

Peter Shearman ‘The sources of Russian conduct: understanding Russian foreign policy’, Review of International Studies, vol. 27, 2001, pp. 249-263 [e-journal]

Dimitri K. Simes ‘An Uncertain Reset’, Foreign Affairs. July 17, 2009 [e-journal] Dimitri K. Simes ‘Losing Russia’, Foreign Affairs. Nov/Dec 2007 [e-journal] Angela Stent ‘Restoration and Revolution in Putin’s Foreign Policy’, Europe-Asia

Studies, Vol. 60, no. 6, 2008 [e-journal]* Christian Thorun Explaining change in Russian foreign policy: The role of ideas in post-Soviet Russia's conduct towards the West

Andrei P. Tsygankov ‘If not by tanks, then by banks? The role of soft power in Putin's foreign policy’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 7, 2006 , pp. 1079 - 1099 [e-journal]

Andrei P. Tsygankov ‘Russia in the Post-Western World: The End of the Normalization Paradigm?’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 4, October-December 2009 [e-journal]

The Right Direction for U.S. Policy toward Russia, Report from The Commission on U.S. Policy toward Russia (Washington D.C.: 2009), http://www.nixoncenter.org/RussiaReport09.pdf. .

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WEEK 10: THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT (16 March)

Lecture: Origins and evolution of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict (guest lecture by Nataliya Kibita, History)

Seminar: Ukraine and Russian foreign policy

What light does the 2014 Russia-Ukraine crisis shed on Russia’s foreign policy aims and achievements?

Core reading Stephen F. Cohen ‘Patriotic Heresy vs. the New Cold War’,. The Nation, August 27,

2014, http://www.thenation.com/article/181399/patriotic-heresy-vs-new-cold-war#*

To be read with: Nikolay Koposov ‘Back to Yalta? Stephen Cohen and the Ukrainian crisis’, Eurozine,

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-09-05-koposov-en.html#* Henry E Hale ‘Russian nationalism and the logic of the Kremlin's actions on

Ukraine’, The Guardian, 29 August 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/russian-nationalism-kremlin-actions-ukraine

Volodymyr Ishchenko ‘Ukraine’s Fractures’, New Left Review, 87, May-June 2014, http://newleftreview.org/II/87

Anatol Lieven ‘The Ukraine Debacle’, Review of Environment, Energy and Economics, July 17, 2014, accessed on August 29 on http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=6525&sez=Publications&padre=409

Julian Lindley-French ‘Ukraine: Understanding Russia’, The RUSI Journal, Volume 159, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 36 –39 [e-journal]*

John J. Mearsheimer ‘Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93 No. 5, Sep/Oct2014, p77-89 [e-journal]*

Lilia Shevtsova ‘The Russia factor’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014, pp. 74–82 [e-journal]*

For latest updates see recent issues of Current Digest of Post-Soviet Press, RFE/RL Newsline and Johnson’s Russia List).

Supplementary reading Russia-Ukraine relations Paul J. D'Anieri Economic interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian relations, Albany,

State University of New York Press, 1999 Emmanuelle Armandon ‘Popular Assessments of Ukraine's Relations with Russia and the

European Union under Yanukovych’, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 21, no. 2, 2013, pp. 289–308, http://essential.metapress.com/content/4k638525816l3721/fulltext.pdf

Marta Dyczok Ukraine: movement without change, change without movement, ch. 6-7, pp. 105–135 Anatol Lieven Ukraine and Russia: a fraternal rivalry (in particular: Chapter 3 The

Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine, pp. 79–104, Chapter 4, Crimea and Sevastopol, pp. 105–133) (good focus various regions in

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Ukraine) Rasmus Nilsson ‘Russian Policy Concerning the Black Sea Fleet and its Being Based

in Ukraine, 2008–2010: Three Interpretations’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2013, pp. 1154–1170 [e-journal]

Sinikukka Saari ‘Russia's Post-Orange Revolution Strategies to Increase its Influence in Former Soviet Republics: Public Diplomacy po russkii’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2014, pages 50-66 [e-journal]

Roman Solchanyk ‘Russians in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects’, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 22, 1998, pp. 539–553 [e-journal]

Roman Solchanyk Ukraine and Russia: the post-Soviet transition (in particular: Chapter 1 A Framework for discussion (on Ukraine-Russia relations), pp. 9–28, Chapter 7 Regions and nations (incl. on Russians in Ukraine), pp. 135–157

Andrew Wilson The Ukrainians: unexpected nation, chapter 13 (How Russia imagines Ukraine), pp. 279–310

Roman Wolczuk Ukraine's foreign and security policy, 1991-2000 London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002, Chapters 2-3 on Ukraine – Russia relations, pp. 27–68

Intra-Ukraine sources of the crisis Serhiy Kudelia ‘The House that Yanukovych built’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 25,

No. 3, July 2014, pp. 19–34 [e-journal] Olga Onuch ‘Who Were the Protesters?’ Journal of Democracy, Vol. 25, No. 3,

July 2014, pp. 44–51 [e-journal] Ararat L. Osipian and Why Donbass Votes for Yanukovych: Confronting the Ukrainian Alexandr L. Osipian Orange Revolution’, in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet

Democratization, Vol. 14, No. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 495–517 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/araratosipian/files/2012/02/OrangeRevDemokr2006.pdf Stephen Shulman ‘Competing versus Complementary Identities: Ukrainian-Russian

Relations and the Loyalties of Russians in Ukraine’, Nationalities Papers 26, no. 4, 1998, pp. 615–32 [e-journal]

Andrew Wilson The Ukrainians: unexpected nation, Epilogue (on the Orange Revolution) pp. 311–341 (good background)

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WEEK 11: DEMOCRATISATION? (23 March)

Lecture: Post-Soviet democratisation: themes and developments Seminar: Characterising Russian ‘democracy’

How is it best to characterise the Russian political system, and why?

Core reading Richard Sakwa ‘The Dual State in Russia’, Post-Soviet Affairs Vol. 26, No. 3, July-

September 2010 [e-journal]* Henry E. Hale ‘Eurasian polities as hybrid regimes: The case of Putin's Russia’,

Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010, pp. 33-41 (January 2010) [e-journal]*

Alexander Lukin ‘Russia's New Authoritarianism and the Post-Soviet Political Ideal’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2009 [e-journal]*

Andrei Okara Sovereign Democracy: A New Russian Idea or a PR Project?’, Russia in Global Affairs, № 2,July -September2007, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/20/1124.html* Ariel Cohen ‘Putin's Legacy and United Russia's New Ideology’, http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg1940.cfm* Pierre Hassner ‘Russia’s transition to autocracy’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 19, no. 2, 2008 [e-journal]* Stephen White ‘Classifying Russia’s Politics’ in White et al, Developments in Russian Politics 7* Harley Balzer ‘Managed Pluralism: Vladimir Putin’s Emerging Regime’, Post- Soviet Affairs, No. 3, July-September 2003 [e-journal] * Andrei Shleifer ‘A Normal Country’, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004 [e-journal]* and Daniel Treisman Michael McFaul ‘The fourth wave of democracy and dictatorship’, World Politics, vol. 54, 2002, pp. 212-244 [e-journal]

Supplementary reading Journal of Democracy Articles on ‘Russian Democracy in Eclipse’, vol. 15, no. 3, July 2004

[e-journal] Edwin Bacon ‘Conceptualising Contemporary Russia’, Slavonic and East European

Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, April 2003 [e-journal]

Journal of Democracy Special issue ‘Elections without democracy’, vol. 13, no. 2, April 2002 [e-journal]

Archie Brown Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader, section 11, 12 Valerie Bunce ‘Comparative Democratization: Lessons from Russia and the

postcommunist World’, in Michael McFaul and K. Stoner-Weiss (eds.), After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition, pp. 207-31

David R Cameron ‘Post-Communist Democracy: The Impact of the European Union’, Post Soviet Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 185-217 [e-journal]

Stephen F. Cohen 'Russian Studies without Russia', Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 1, Jan-March 1999, pp. 37-55 [e-journal]. See also exchange between Cohen and M. Steven Fish in Post-Soviet Affairs, October-December 2001.

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Thomas Carothers ‘The end of the transition paradigm’, Journal of Democracy, vol.13, no. 1, January 2002. See also responses in no. 3, 2002 [e-journal]

Timothy J. Colton ‘Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy’ in Alex Pravda (ed.), Leading Russia--Putin in perspective: essays in honour of Archie Brown, pp. 103-119

M. Steven Fish ‘Postcommunist subversion: social science and democratization in East Europe and Eurasia’, Slavic Review, vol. 58, no. 4, 1999, pp. 794-823 [e-journal]

M. Steven Fish Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics Jordan Gans-Morse ‘Searching for Transitologists: Contemporary Theories of Post-

Communist Transitions and the Myth of a Dominant Paradigm’ Post-Soviet Affairs Vol. 20, No. 4, October-December 2004, pp. 320-349 [e-journal]

Graeme Gill ‘A new turn to authoritarian rule in Russia?’, Democratization, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2006, pp. 58-77 [e-journal]

Nikolay Petrov, ‘Three dilemmas of hybrid regime governance: Russia from Putin to Maria Lipman Putin’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 30:1, 2014, pp. 1-26 [e-journal] & Henry E. Hale Charles King ‘Post-Postcommunism: Transition, Comparison and the End of

“Eastern Europe”’, World Politics, 53, 2000, pp. 143-172 [e-journal] Ivan Krastev ‘Democracy's “doubles”’, Journal of Democracy, Vol.

17, No .2 April 2006, pp. 52-62 [e-journal]

Guillermo O’ Donnell ‘Delegative democracy’ in Larry Diamond, L. & M. F. Plattner (eds.), The Global Resurgence of Democracy (2nd edn.)

Andreas Schedler ‘How should we study democratic consolidation?’, Democratization, vol. 5, no. 4, 1998, pp. 1-19

Richard Sakwa 'The Regime system in Russia', Contemporary Politics Vol. 3 No. 1, 1997, pp 7-25 [e-journal]

Fareed Zakaria ‘The Rise of illiberal democracy’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 6, 1997, pp. 22-43 [e-journal]

REVISION SESSION

There will be a two-hour revision/course feedback session in Week 12 (beginning 30 March 2015). Please check the Learn

page for exact date and time

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APPENDIX 1: TUTORIAL FEEDBACK AND ASSESSMENT FORM

Tutor: Student Name: Total Mark: Attendance

Number of Tutorials Present Excused Absence Absence without excuse (5 mark deduction)

Contribution to tutorial discussion (50% of tutorial mark)

Criteria Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Mark

The student made a significant contribution to tutorial discussions

The student’s preparation and contribution demonstrated a thoughtful engagement with the readings

Contribution to group presentation (50% of tutorial mark)

Criteria Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Combined presentation mark

The student made an articulate and animated contribution to the group exercise

The student’s contribution to the group exercise seemed to be informed by appropriate study, reading and preparation

Comments:

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APPENDIX 2: LIST OF RUSSIAN POLITICS WEBSITES Internet sites are increasingly essential for up-to-date information. Relevant data may be found on the following. Please note that site addresses may change rapidly. If you can read Russian, let me know, as the range of Russian language sites is enormous and I can give you some pointers. If anyone finds useful sites not on this list please let me know. Periodically some sites become subscription only. General

The Political Studies Association (http://www.psa.ac.uk/Content.aspx?ParentID=5) provides links to country-specific politics resources on the Internet (e.g. on elections, constitutions, etc).

For data on elections around the world, see: http://www.electionguide.org/, and in Europe, see http://www.parties-and-elections.de

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources http://www.politicsresources.net/area/russia.htm is also useful.

News and analysis: Carnegie Endowment: http://www.carnegie.ru/en/. Radio Free Europe: http://www.rferl.org/section/Russia/161.html Johnson’s Russia List www.russialist.org This is an excellent but large archive of Russia-related English-language sources from the world’s press (primarily US and Russian). It increasingly has a lot of high-quality translations from the Russian Press. Browse archive but always be aware of source origins. Harvard Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS): http://ponarseurasia.org/blog/. An excellent source on domestic and (especially) foreign policy (but not always updated) Chatham House Russia and Eurasia resources at: http://www.chathamhouse.org/research/russia-eurasia . Russian news sources Moscow Times http://www.themoscowtimes.com/ Moscow News http://themoscownews.com/ Russia in Global Affairs http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/ Valdai Discussion Club http://valdaiclub.com/ RIA Novosti http://en.ria.ru/ Russian think-tanks Institute of Contemporary Development (liberal think-tank once close to Medvedev)

http://www.insor-russia.ru/en/_about_us Elections, Parties Russia Votes (public opinion data): http://www.russiavotes.org Yabloko party: http://www.eng.yabloko.ru/index.html Just Russia party http://www.spravedlivo.ru/international/party_english/ Free electronic subscriptions: Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/ (Daily analysis of post-Soviet events, but somewhat anti-Russian tone) Radio Free Europe Russia Report: subscribe via http://www.rferl.org/subscribe.aspx Russian Analytical Digest: subscribe via http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/

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APPENDIX 3: LEARNING RESOURCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study techniques. Resources and workshops cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading, note making, essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques. The study development resources are housed on 'LearnBetter' (undergraduate), part of Learn, the University's virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduates. Workshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities, have discussions, exchange strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at 1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above). Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the MyEd booking system. Each workshop opens for booking 2 weeks before the date of the workshop itself. If you book and then cannot attend, please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To be fair to all students, anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing up for future events). Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions about your own approach to studying, working more effectively, strategies for improving your learning and your academic work. Please note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so they cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read students' work. To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email [email protected] (For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language Teaching Centre).

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COURSE PROGRAMME

WEEK 1 (12 Jan) General introduction to course (political culture lecture) WEEK 2 (19 Jan) Lecture: The USSR: origins, structures, development Seminar: Approaches to the Soviet system WEEK 3 (26 Jan) Lecture: The politics of Russian economic reform Seminar: ‘Clans’, oligarchs and the Russian executive WEEK 4 (2 Feb) Lecture: The evolution of executive-legislative relations in Russia Seminar: Putin, Medvedev and the evolution of executive-legislative relations WEEK 5 (9 Feb) Lecture: Centre-periphery relations Seminar: Chechnya and the North Caucasus WEEK 6 (16 Feb) INNOVATIVE LEARNING WEEK DVD session: film tbc WEEK 7 (23 Feb) Lecture: Russian elections Seminar: Political parties WEEK 8 (2 March) Lecture: Civil society, uncivil society and quasi-civil society Seminar: Social change in contemporary Russia WEEK 9 (9 March) Lecture: The evolution of Russian foreign policy Seminar: Russia and the West WEEK 10 (16 March) Lecture: Origins and evolution of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict Seminar: Ukraine and Russian foreign policy WEEK 11 (23 March) Lecture: Post-Soviet democratisation: themes and developments Seminar: Characterising Russian ‘democracy’ WEEK 12 (30 March) Revision session (exact date and time tbc)