PSCI 3440
RUSSIAN AND CENTRAL
ASIAN POLITICS
JIM BUTTERFIELD
SPRING 2019
"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 5:00-6:40
Office Hours: Tu 1:45-3:15, W 2:30-4:00
Office Telephone: 7-5696
Room: 2208 Dunbar
Office: 3352 Friedmann
Email: jim.butterfield@wmich.edu
Site: jimbutterfield.org/3440.html
TA: Ilay Inceefe
Office: 3438 Friedmann
Office Hours: M 3:30-5:00, Th 5:00-6:30
Email: ilay.ozdag@wmich.edu
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