I am a Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park), President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (April 2006–March 2007), and since April 2007, Chairman of the Presidential Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.

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Course Name Course Title Semester Syllabus
GVPT459R Seminar in Comparative Politics; The Rise and Fall of Communism Spring 2022 Syllabus
GVPT459K Seminar in Comparative Politics; Russian Politics: From Lenin to Putin Spring 2023 Syllabus
GVPT445H Marxism and Post-Marxism Spring 2022 Syllabus
GVPT459H Seminar in Comparative Politics; East European Politics and Societies: Communism, Liberalism, Populism Spring 2023 Syllabus
GVPT459R Seminar in Comparative Politics; The Rise and Fall of Communism Fall 2019 Syllabus
GVPT459X Seminar in Comparative Politics; Political Radicalism Fall 2019 Syllabus
GVPT445 Marxism and Postmarxism Spring 2019 Syllabus
GVPT459P The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Consequences: Communism and Post-Communism in East-Central Europe Spring 2019 Syllabus
GVPT445 Marxism and Postmarxism Fall 2018 Syllabus
Email
vtisman [at] gvpt.umd.edu