SOC 2039 Russia in a Changing World
This course examines the impact of Russia's imperial and Soviet past on its contemporary social structure, culture, and international environment. Analyses of social polarization, ethnic relations, criminal organizations, demographic and health issues, gender construction, mass media and popular culture, contemporary political ideology and the struggle to reestablish itself as a Great Power set up wide-ranging concluding questions concerning Russia's likely trajectories in a fast-changing world.