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teaching social sciences at a post-soviet university: a survey of challenges for visiting lecturers in the former USSR

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Western lecturers visiting social science departments in the former Soviet Union find themselves immersed in a social micro-system that often functions differently from comparable departments in the West. Having been isolated from international developments and abused as instruments of indoctrination for decades, post-Soviet social sciences are plagued by a number of pathologies in administration, teaching, and studying. While posing considerable challenges for visiting professors, these defects make the continued presence of Western visiting lecturer programmes in the former USSR all the more necessary.

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Umland, A. teaching social sciences at a post-soviet university: a survey of challenges for visiting lecturers in the former USSR. Eur Polit Sci 4, 219–229 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210025

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