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This course explores the government and politics of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It focuses on the major political and economic trends of recent years – the evolution of the political system and the executive branch, the transition to a market economy and the evolution of Russian capitalism, the politics of federalism and the recentralization of power under Putin, as well as the pressing challenges of corruption and imperatives of state-building. While grounded in the study of modern Russia, the course takes an implicitly comparative approach and also addresses questions relevant to other national contexts.