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Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia comprise a vast region of the world that is vitally important politically, strategically, historically and culturally. This seminar series brings leading experts, from around the world - scholars and practitioners - representing a broad range of fields, to share their cutting-edge research and insights into the challenges and issues that have confronted this region in a global context.nnNote: Class meets Fridays 12:00-1:00pm in Encina Commons 123.

The collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives document the wars, revolutions, political and social movements, and the struggles for peace around the globe in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will introduce students to the origins and evolution of this unique institution, highlight its rare collections, and reveal how it collects, preserves, and makes available to researchers an enormous and ever-expanding array of primary-source material, including personal archives, photographs and film, posters, rare books and periodicals, artworks, and digital records. Students will gain insight into the operations of a special collections research center, including the role of conservation, the digitizing of collections, and how public exhibitions make the history that emerges from the collections available to a broader public. Speakers will include Hoover's curators and members of the Research Services, Digital Services, Preservation, Exhibitions, and Research and Education teams. Historian, Hoover Research Fellow, and IR Lecturer Bertrand Patenaude (Stanford MA '79, PhD '87), will introduce the course and coordinate the individual sessions.

Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia comprise a vast region of the world that is vitally important politically, strategically, historically and culturally. This seminar series brings leading experts, from around the world - scholars and practitioners - representing a broad range of fields, to share their cutting-edge research and insights into the challenges and issues that have confronted this region in a global context.nnNote: Class meets Fridays 12:00-1:00pm in Encina Commons 123.

Formative issues in Russian history from Muscovy to the present: autocracy and totalitarianism; tsars, emperors, and party secretaries; multi-ethnicity and nationalism; serfdom, peasantry; rebellions and revolutions, dissent and opposition; law and legality; public and private spheres; religion and atheism; patterns of collapse. Class format will be discussion of one to two assigned books or major articles per class.

Russia presents a puzzle for theories of socio-economic development and modernization and their relationship to state power in international politics. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought into being the new Russia (or Russian Federation) as its successor in international politics. Russia suffered one of the worst recessions and experienced 25 years of halting reform. Despite these issues, Russia is again a central player in international affairs. Course analyzes motivations behind contemporary Russian foreign policy by reviewing its domestic and economic underpinnings. Examination of concept of state power in international politics to assess Russia's capabilities to influence other states' policies, and under what conditions its leaders use these resources. Is contemporary Russia strong or weak? What are the resources and constraints its projection of power beyond its borders? What are the determinants of state power in international politics in the twenty-first century? This course is a combination of a lecture and discussion, and will include lectures, readings, class discussions, films and documentaries.

Course aims: This course focuses on how democracies erode - and how they rebuild.We will focus on how populist parties, authoritarian politicians, and aggrieved social forces can undermine liberal democracy, and why that matters. We examine historical authoritarian systems, and how modern autocrats differ, emphasizing that modern erosion of democracy if often gradual and wrapped in a populist flag. We will examine the economic, cultural, and political causes of the democratic breakdown, and then look at cases across several regional settings. In the United States, populism was both a force for changing politics¿and for the undermining of democracy. Finally, we will see how illiberalism spreads, and how it can be stopped.

Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting (e.g. laboratory, clinic, research institute, academic institution, or government agency). F-1 international graduate students enrolled in this course cannot start working without first obtaining a CPT-endorsed I-20 from Bechtel International Center (enrolling in the CPT course alone is insufficient to meet federal immigration regulations).