Master 2025/2026

Russian Politics

Type: Elective course (Comparative Politics of Eurasia)

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

When: 1 year, 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Andrey N. Scherbak

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is aimed at studying the main aspects of the political development of Russia in the post-Soviet period. A wide range of topics of contemporary Russian politics are considered, the main of which are: institutional choice and state building, regime evolution, issues of federalism and regional politics, the party system, the economic foundations of Russian politics, social movements in contemporary Russia. These topics are studied in comparison with other countries of Eurasia in order to understand the general and special in the political development of Russia.