The Double Transition in Russian Area Studies
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v6i1.84Keywords:
Russia, Area studies, undergraduate education, Russian StudiesAbstract
The transitions shaping both Russia and Russian area studies clearly carry implications for how to teach our students and prepare them to understand the area. Thus, following a detailed discussion of the double transition in Russian area studies, this essay will consider the pedagogical implications for undergraduate education in Russian studies, in area studies in general, and for study abroad programs in Russia in the early 21st century.
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Bunce, Valerie. “Should transitologists be grounded?” Slavic Review. 54:1, 112-127. 1995.
Bunce, Valerie. “Paper curtains and paper tigers.” Slavic Review. 54:4, 979-987. 1995.
Cohen, Stephen F. “Russian studies without Russia.” Post-Soviet Affairs. 15:1, 37-55. 1999.
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Committee on College and Pre-College Russian. Fall ’98 census article. Online: american.edu/research/CCPCR/article.htm. Accessed July 17, 2000.
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Fleron, Frederic J. Communist Studies and the Social Sciences. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1969.
Fleron, Frederic J. and Hoffmann. Post-Communist Studies and Political Science. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1993.
Fleron, Frederic J. “The logic of inquiry in post-Soviet studies: art or science.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 29:3, 245-274. 1996.
Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 1999.
Georgetown University. Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies webpage. 2000. www.Georgetown.edu/sfs/ceres/index.html. Accessed June 28, 2000.
Goldman, Marshall I. Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked. New York: W.W. Norton. 1994.
Hall, Peter A. and Tarrow, Sidney. “Globalization and area studies: when is too broad too narrow?” The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 23, 1998. Online: http://chronicle.com/data/articles…t-44.dir/issue-20.dir/20b00401.htm. Accessed July 17, 2000.
Hough, Jerry, and Fainsod, Merle. How the Soviet Union Is Governed. Cambridge, MA. and London: Harvard University Press. 1979.
Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1968.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1996. Indiana University. Department of Central Eurasian Studies. 2000.
Online: www.indiana.edu/~ceus/main.htm. Accessed June 28, 2000.
Innerst, Carol. “Russian language’s fall from favor causes worry.” Washington Times. October 12, 1995. Online:http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/He
brewEastAsian/area/html. Accessed July 17, 2000.
Janda, Laura A. “Reforming the area studies curriculum: defining issues and objectives.” Newsnet: The Newsletter of the AAASS. 39:2, 1-4.
Karatnycky, Adrian. “Nations in transit: from change to permanence.” Nations in Transit. ed. Karatnycky et al. Freedom House. 1998 Online: freedomhouse.org/nit98/karat.html. Accessed July 26, 2000.
Karl, Terry Lynn and Schmitter, Philippe C. “From an iron curtain to a paper curtain: grounding transitologists or students of postcommunism?” Slavic Review. 54:4, 965- 978. 1995.
Khalid, Adeeb. “Your asia or mine: central asian studies in post-soviet times.” Newsnet: The Newsletter of the AAASS. 39:5, 1-3. 1999.
Kundera, Milan. “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” New York Review of Books. XXXI:7, 33-38. 1984.
Ludden, David. “The territoriality of knowledge and the history of area studies.” 1997. Online: www.ses.upenn.edu/~dludden/areast1.htm. Accessed July 17, 2000.
Lustick, Ian S. “The disciplines of political science: studying the culture of rational choice as a case in point.” PS: Political Science and Politics. XXX:2, 175-179. 1997.
Malia, Martin (“Z”). “To the Stalin mausoleum.” Daedalus. 119:1. 1990.
Millar, James R. “Doom without gloom: area studies and the economics profession.” Newsnet: The Newsletter of the AAASS. 37:4, 5-6. 1997.
Prewitt, Kenneth. Presidential items. Social science research council web page. 1996. Online: http://www.ssrc.org/mitems6.htm. Accessed July 17, 2000.
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Schmitter, Philippe C. and Karl, Terry Lynn. “The conceptual travels of transitologists and consolidologists: how far to the east should they attempt to go?” Slavic Review. 53:1, 183-185. 1994.
Shea, Christopher. “New faces and new methodologies invigorate Russian studies.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 20, 1998, A16-A18. 1998.
Steinberg, Mark D., Balzer, Harley, and Colton, Timothy J. “Reforming the area studies curriculum: three views.” Newsnet: The Newsletter of the AAASS. 39:4, 1-6. 1999.
Volkman, Toby Alice. “Crossing borders.” Ford Foundation Report. Winter. 1998. Online: www.fordfound.org/publications. Accessed July 17, 2000.
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2000-12-15
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Bova, R. (2000). The Double Transition in Russian Area Studies. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 6(1), 127–154. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v6i1.84
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