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Political Science 3340F/G
THE RISE AND FALL OF COMMUNISM IN THE USSR AND EASTERN EUROPE
Communism had a great impact on the politics and history of Europe and parts of Asia in the twentieth century. This course explores the form of communism which turned the collapsing Russian empire into the USSR, spread to Eastern Europe after World War Two and eventually collapsed in 1989-91.