Political Science Department
Faculty Index

Chair
John Vile

Secretary
Pam Davis

Active Faculty
Ray Block, Jr.
Mark Byrnes
David Carleton
Sekou Franklin
Andrei Korobkov
Lisa Langenbach
Steven Livingston
Steve Maloney
John Maynor
Robb McDaniel
Mario Perez-Reilly
Karen Petersen
Steve Robertson
Anne Sloan
Moses Tesi
George Vernardakis
Clyde Willis

Retired Faculty
Jack Turner
Tom VanDervort

Moscow

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The so-called “House on the Embankment,” built by Stalin in Moscow in 1934 for the Soviet Communist elite. By 1938, about 90 percent of its inhabitants were either executed or sent to the GULAG. The Moscow State University main building, built at the end of the Stalin era. My kids stay next to Christ the Savior Cathedral—built in the nineteenth century to commemorate Russia’s victory over Napoleon, it was demolished by the Soviets in 1934 and rebuilt after the collapse of the USSR. The Kremlin walls. The new WWII memorial in Moscow. The monument to Alexander Pushkin--the greatest Russian poet, whose ancestors came from Ethiopia. In the hall of one of the original Moscow subway stations. The Red Square. KFC in Moscow. Symbols of the new and the old coexist in Moscow. With Joseph Ordzhonikidze, Deputy Mayor of Moscow. In the last three years, Mr. Ordzhonikidze survived three assassination attempts. One of the bullets remains in his stomach With Oleg Rumyantsev, one of the early Russian reformers and recently, VP of the Russian Shell branch. With V. Zorin, Russia’s Minister for the Federal and National Affairs (center) and E. Pain, the Head of the Center for the Etnopolitical and Regional Studies and the former President Yeltsin’s advisor for the Ethnic Affairs. Sergei Khrushchev, Professor of Brown University and the son of the one-time famous Soviet premier, has visited our campus in 2001.


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The Political Science Department

MTSU P.O. Box 29

Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132

office: (615) 898-2708

fax: (615) 898-5460

John Vile: jvile@mtsu.edu
Pam Davis: pdavis@mtsu.edu