PSCI 3440

RUSSIAN AND CENTRAL

ASIAN POLITICS

JIM BUTTERFIELD

SPRING 2021

"At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself."

― Vladimir Putin

"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain."

― Tony Benn

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

― Winston Churchill

"Even under Stalin, Soviet state power, acting through law and the courts, confronted serious limits in its efforts to govern, much less transform, its colonial Central Asian periphery.”

― Douglas Northrop

Class: M-W 4:00-5:40

Synchronous Online

Office hours: Tu 10:00-11:30, W 1:30-3:00

Webex: wmich.webex.com/meet/jim.butterfield

Email: jim.butterfield@wmich.edu

Site: jimbutterfield.org/3440.html

TA: Ms. Yu Cheng

Webex: wmich.webex.com/meet/yu.cheng

Office Hours: M and Th 1:00-2:30

Email: yu.cheng@wmich.edu

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