USSR/CIS/NIS/Russia

History 328

History of the Soviet Union since 1917

December 6, 2002

USSR --> CIS --> NIS --> Russia


Dancing President I Yeltsin on the Campaign Trail, 1996	Dancing President II Putin as a Teenager

I. Breakup of the USSR

Sources of national independence movements

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Problems of the newly independent states (NIS)

economic reform

democratiziation

state-building

II. Four Countries on the Road to Independence

Lithuania

Georgia

Uzbekistan

Ukraine

III. Independent Russia

Problems

The search for a"Russian Idea"

Russians abroad

Persistence of communism and power of nationalism

Federalism

Why "democracy" is a dirty word in Russia

Post-communist culture

Mass culture

"High" culture

Music:

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