Parties and Party Systems in Southeastern Europe after 1989 - JMMZ099

• Title: Parties and Party Systems in Southeastern Europe after 1989
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2010 to 2010
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Prof. Nikos Marantzidis

Annotation

The aim of the course is to describe the basic political trends during the transition period after the fall of communism in the
Balkan countries. The course will pay, also, attention to the Greek political events in the same period.

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Requirements to the exam

The students are obliged to prepare a paper of 3.000 words. The papers are related to the field of the seminar.

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Syllabus

Seminar 1. The communist legacy. The communism in the Balkans from 1944 up to 1989. Main characteristics of the Balkan "patrimonial" Communism.

Seminar 2. The Greek "exception". Political development in Greece from 1944 up to 1989.

Seminar 3. the "Balkan style" of fall of communism.

Seminar 4. The Greek "exception no 2": the communists in the government during 1989-1990.

Seminar 5. Parties and party system in Bulgaria and Rumania.

Seminar 6. Parties and party system in Albania and ex-Yugoslavia.

Seminar 7. Parties and party system in Greece.

Seminar 8. Conclusions.

Last update: VYKOUKAL (24.02.2012)