UCL SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

History, Politics and Economics BA Reading List 2018

(Please note that these are preliminary readings and you do not necessarily have to have read all of these before you begin your course). History

SEHI1004 Frontiers of History will be one of your core modules in your first year. As with any history module, Frontiers of History has a reading list as follows:

 Mark Mazower, The Balkans https://www.amazon.co.uk/Balkans-UNIVERSAL-HISTORY- Mark-Mazower/dp/1842125443  Willard Sunderland, The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire through War and Revolution https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barons-Cloak-History-Russian- Revolution/dp/0801452708  Paul Betts, Within Walls. Private Life in the GDR (available online) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Within-Walls-Private-Democratic-Republic/dp/0199668299  Andrzeij Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Babadag- Travels-Other-Europe/dp/0099507145)

You do not have to purchase books from Amazon but the links above have all the publication info etc. (Within Walls itself is an e-book in UCL Explore, which is also available through the UCL Library to read online for free)

If you want some more general background reading, we recommend the following:

 History Crampton, R. (1997) Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After. London: Routledge  Hosking, G. (1992) A History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. London: Harper Collins.  Ash, Timothy Garton. (1990). Magic Lantern: Revolution of ‘89. Random House.

Politics

(Particularly recommended to students who have not studied Politics at A level)  Bale, T., 2013, European Politics: a Comparative Introduction, 3rd Edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.  Wolff, J. (2006). An Introduction to Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

International Relations  Baylis, J. and Smith, S. and Owens, P. (eds) (2013) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. 6th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Politics books and articles by SSEES academics

Alena Ledeneva on ‘How Russia Really Works’: https ://www.cer.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/pdf/2011/e246_unwritten_ rules-2203.pdf

Richard Mole on how intra-EU migration can help reduce intolerance towards LGBT: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/analysis/2016-17/go-west

Seán Hanley on the state of democracy in Eastern Europe and a possible knock-on effect of Brexit (with James Dawson) “What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe? The Fading Mirage of the “Liberal Consensus”, Journal of Democracy, 27 (1), January 2016, 20-34 “Does Brexit lead to Frexit – or even Czexit?” UCL Britain & Europe blog, 16 May 2016.

Pete Duncan on the foreign policy of Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev, 2008- 2012: ‘Batman and Robin? Exploring foreign policy differences between Putin and Medvedev during the Medvedev presidency’ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/docs/research-publications- documents/cepsi-working-papers/batman-and-robin.pdf

Jan Kubik on civil society in Central Europe and illiberalism in Poland (with Grzegorz Ekiert) ‘Myths and Realities of Civil Society’, Journal of Democracy, 2014, 25, 1, 46-58. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ekiert/files/journal_of_democracy_2-14- 2014_website_date.pdf ‘Illiberal Challenge to Liberal Democracy. The Case of Poland’. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 8, No. 2: 1-11. https://www.academia.edu/2404404/Illiberal_Challenge_to_Liberal_Democracy_The_Case _of_Poland

Allan Sikk on populism in party politics: “Parties and Populism”, UCL SSEES Working paper.

Economics

 Paul Krugman, Robin Wells and Kathryn Graddy, Economics - European Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, Worth Publishers, 2009), 978-0716799566 (Core text)

Complementary Reading:

 Sloman, J., Economics (2006) 6th edition (Prentice Hall)  Sloman, J., Essentials in Economics, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 2004)  Stiglitz, JE. & Driffill, Economics (WWNorton & Co., 2000) ISBN. 0-393-97584- 3 (pbk) Parkin, M., Powell, M. & Matthews, K., Economics, 5th edition (2003)

Students who have already taken ‘A’ level Economics may find the following interesting:

 Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist  John Kay, The Truth about Markets: their Genius, their Limits, their Follies