Christopher D Jones
Surveys history of Soviet military and Soviet empire from 1917 to 1985, breakup of the USSR during 1985 to 1991, and the emergence of new security issues among those Eurasian states that formally constituted the national components of the USSR and its communist military allies.
Spring 2002: Survey of the creation and collapse of the Soviet security system for Eastern Europe from 1945-1990. Interaction of the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Collapse of the Soviet military and USSR, 1989-1991. Russia and European security after 1991.
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