Michael E. Urban Home  Directory Michael E. Urban
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Michael E. Urban
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Professor of Politics |
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Email: |
urban47@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-3153 Office
(831) 459-3125 Fax |
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Office: |
233 Crown College |
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Office Hours: |
Fall 2009
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00-5:30 PM |
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Michael Urban's research has dealt principally with Russia (USSR), focusing on questions of political language and ideology, the circulation of elites, the dynamics of the mass movement that overthrew the communist regime, and the problems of state and society in the post-communist period. He has also explored the appearance and development of blues music and culture in Russia, focusing on social identity and community formation under conditions of stress and uncertainty. |
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Russia gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times, Cornell University Press, 2004.
The Rebirth of Politics in Russia. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
More Power to the Soviets: The Democratic Revolution in the USSR. Edward Elgar, 1990.
An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic, 1966-86. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
The Ideology of Administration: American and Soviet Cases. State University of New York Press, 1982. |
| Courses Taught | |
POLI 251-01 - Discourse
POLI-140B-01 - Comparative Post-Communist Politics
POLI-142-01 - Russian Politics
POLI-251-01 - Discourse
POLI-43-01 - Eurasian Politics
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| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1976 |
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