Course Title:
Commissars and Managers: Soviet Economic History
Course Description:
Provides an economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. Working in lectures and the computer lab, students use tactics and methods of modern business, economics, and management strategy as a means to understand, interpret, and evaluate Soviet economic policies and the history of Soviet economic development. Special themes include discussions of the purge of industrial managers as “wreckers,” the labor incentives of _Stakhanovism_-the Stalinist star system for extraordinary labor productivity, the economics of forced labor and the Gulag, the Second World War, financing the Cold War, the black market, corruption, and the central role played by former communists in the transition to capitalism (_nomenklatura_ privatization).
Fall Offering:
None
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Spring Offering:
None
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Summer Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 1:
Summer 2 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Sophomore standing or above; an introductory history course is strongly recommended.
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
