Module POC3128 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3128: Post-Soviet Politics and Societies
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay plan | 1 page | 1-9 | Oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 60 | 2,500 words | 1-9 | Written |
| Policy briefing | 40 | 2,500 words | 1-9 | Written |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | Essay (2,500 words) | 1-9 | August/September re-assessment period |
| Policy briefing | Policy briefing (2,000 words) | 1-9 | August/September Re-assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Beissinger, Marc, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Beissinger, Mark and Stephen Kotkin (eds), Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Carothers, Thomas, ‘The End of the Transition Paradigm’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2002).
Cohen, Stephen F. ‘Was the Soviet System Reformable?,” Slavic Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Autumn 2004).
Cooley, Alexander, Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Hirsch, Francine, ‘Toward an Empire of Nations: Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities’, Russian Review Vol. 59, No. 2 (2000).
Sakwa, Richard, Putin: Russia’s Choice, 2nd Edition, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008).
Sakwa, Richard, The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Sakwa, Richard, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, (London: I.B. Taurus, 2014).
Tsygankov, Andrei, Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, Third Edition, (Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Yurchak, Alexei, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
