Russia's policy in the post-Soviet area

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Course ID:	3620-1-PRNOP-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0312) Political sciences and civics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Russia's policy in the post-Soviet area
Name in Polish:	Polityka Rosji na obszarze postsowieckim
Organizational unit:	Studies in Eastern Europe
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty ogólnouniwersyteckie Studium Europy Wschodniej General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	The subject of the lectures is presentation the main periods of development of Russian and Soviet State, the mechanisms of its development and causes the lost of dynamics conducting to the disintegration of the empire. Substantial object of the lectures is demonstrating of the changes of political and economic structures of Russia and specific features these processes in particular parts of the former Soviet Union. The lecture shows the forms and methods of the influence of Russian authorities on CIS countries in dynamic approach – changes of the Russian external policy doctrine towards so called „close abroad”, contradictions and conflicts between CIS countries, the attempts undertaken for shape the new form of integration of the post-Soviet area.
Full description:	The subject of the lectures is presentation the main periods of development of Russian and Soviet State, the mechanisms of its development and causes the lost of dynamics conducting to the disintegration of the empire. Substantial object of the lectures is demonstrating of the changes of political and economic structures of Russia and specific features these processes in particular parts of the former Soviet Union. The lecture shows the forms and methods of the influence of Russian authorities on CIS countries in dynamic approach – changes of the Russian external policy doctrine towards so called „close abroad”, contradictions and conflicts between CIS countries, the attempts undertaken for shape the new form of integration of the post-Soviet area. The lectures include such problems as the evolution of the Russian ethnic policy, the lost of marxist ideology, growth of the striving to the independence in Soviet republics and disintegration of the Communist state in the process of glasnost and perestroika. Economic and political changes in Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's periods. Political and ethnic conflicts in Central Asia, and South Caucasus. Russian policy to the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Changes of the Russian Federation internal and international policy in Putin's period. The characteristics of the contemporary Russian political elite. Dmitri Medvedev and the new expectations
Bibliography:	(in Polish) W opisie przedmiotu.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Znajomość literatury Umiejętność posługiwania się materiałem Zaliczenie ustne

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