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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