Post-Soviet Text

[Michael Denner]

Dear Frederick White,
I've used recently, with pretty good success, Kotkin's Armageddon Averted, which starts, roughly, in 1974 and carries forth until the Putin era. The course I used it in was social-science oriented, with largely first-year students. 
 
Armageddon is short, the prose is vigorous and clear -- even students befuddled by Florida public education could get it. It got the nod from my colleagues in Political Science and Economics... It makes a cogent and convincing narrative of twenty years of tumult. A useful set of landmarks for comprehending twenty years of history.
 
I liked it. 
 
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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
Director, University Honors Program

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From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list on behalf of Dr. Frederick H. White
Sent: Sat 3/4/2006 5:06 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Post-Soviet Text



Dear Colleagues,

I am creating a new undergraduate course that will be available to a wide
range of students, many of whom will have no background in Russian language,
literature, history, etc.  I would like to know if you could recommend a
text appropriate for undergraduates about Post-Soviet Russia, which might
cover topics like Glasnost/Perestroika, the Russian mafia, the Chechen wars,
etc.  Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Respectfully,

Frederick H. White

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Dr. Frederick H. White
Memorial University SN3056
Dept. of German and Russian
Ph: 709-737-8829
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