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Lecture 11. Example 3 - Eastern Europe

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

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Questions for Seminar Discussions

  • What were the main difficulties in the transition to democracy in the Former Soviet Union countries? For economic reform? How did FSU and EE countries differ in these respects?
  • What are the main challenges to democracy and development in Russia today? In other countries in FSU and EE? How do these challenges differ among countries?
  • What is your reaction to the findings of the Freedom House, as reflected in the Freedom Map of the World 2005?

Key terms:

State Building, Regime Change, and Economic Change

The Communist Party

Centrally Planned or "Command Economy"

Democratic Centrality

Communism

Soviet Security Apparatus

Bureaucracy

Bottom-Up Accountability

Black Markets

Reform Sequencing

EU Membership

Chronic Shortages

Censorship

Perestroika and Glasnost'

 

 
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