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Undergraduate courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

REES 35. Self-Determination in Central Asian Cinema of the 1960s and 1990s

Films with English subtitles from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. May be repeated once for credit. (AU)

1-2 units, Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

REES 105. Central and East European Politics

(Same as REES 205.) Focus is on how the states of Central and East Europe, including the Baltic states, have moved from communism and the Soviet Bloc to democracy, NATO and the EU. Topics include the communist legacy, transitions and their legacies, ethnic issues, and the evolution of economic and social policies, and the comparison of democratization processes in these countries to democracies in other regions, such as Latin America and southern Europe. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Aut (Staff), given once only

REES 130. With God in Russia: Orthodox Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

(Same as REES 330.) The experience of religion, particularly Orthodoxy, under tsars and commissars. Religion as a lived experience; practice and belief in the provinces and villages, intertwining of religion and folk customs (the so-called double faith); condition of the Church before and after the Revolutions of 1917; religion under Soviet control; and liberation of the Church since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

4-5 units, Aut (Kollmann, J)

REES 330. WIth God in Russia: Orthodox Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries

(Same as REES 130.) The experience of religion, particularly Orthodoxy, under tsars and commissars. Religion as a lived experience; practice and belief in the provinces and villages, intertwining of religion and folk customs (the so-called double faith); condition of the Church before and after the Revolutions of 1917; religion under Soviet control; and liberation of the Church since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

4-5 units, Aut (Kollmann, J)

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