POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barbara Demick, Iron Curtain, Authoritarianism
17 Jan 2018
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Week 8: communism/post-communism (march 8, 10 (q-day), and 13: o"neil, communism and post communism, chapter 9 in essentials of comparative politics. Ivan krastev, paradoxes of the new authoritarianism, journal of democracy, vol. 5-16: barbara demick, the good cook, (excerpt from nothing to envy: ordinary lives in north korea in the. The world of communism: communist states colored red, 1/3 of the world"s population lived in communist states communism was like cancer; if they weren"t stopped, it would fall like dominos. A cold war against communism: communism was a central focus of western, particularly american, foreign policy. Former communist countries of eastern europe: communist countries of eastern europe formed an iron curtain that separated the soviet union (also communist) from capitalist countries in western europe. Former communist states of asia: afghanistan, cambodia, china, laos, mongolia, north korea, vietnam. Former communist states in africa: angola, benin, ethiopia, mozambique, south yemen.
