2017-18 READING LIST Social studies Social TOPIC Studies In the Shadow of the Red Bear: Russia and the former Soviet Union Contest PRIMARY READING SELECTION The Social Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, by David Remnick Studies Vintage Books; (1994) ISBN# 978-0679751250 Contest Available from: consists of Texas Educational Paperbacks, Inc 45 objective 800-443-2078 questions and www.tepbooks.com List price: $18.00, TEP UIL price: $11.70 plus shipping essay. Also available from most online book sellers.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING MATERIAL Students are Country Profiles expected to (from the CIA’s The World Factbook and BBC News Country Profiles) master primary • Armenia • Lithuania reading • Azerbaijan • Moldova selections, as • Belarus • Russia well as specific • Estonia • Tajikistan documents, • Georgia • Turkmenistan and to be • Kazakhstan • Ukraine familiar • Kyrgyzstan • Uzbekistan with general • Latvia knowledge social studies concepts and terms. LINKS https://www.britannica.com Each year, the https://www.infoplease.com/ contest focuses https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/profileguide.html on a different http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm topic area and http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17858981 http://soviethistory.msu.edu/ a reading list http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union is provided by UIL. 2017-18 TERM LIST Social studies
PEOPLE George Orwell Brest-Litovsk Valdas Adamkus Boris Pasternak Brezhnev Doctrine Ilham Aliyev Petro Poroshenko Caspian Sea Hafizullah Amin Boris Pugo Chechen War Yuri Andropov Alexander Pushkin Second Chechen War Anna Akhmatova Vladimir Putin Chernobyl Almazbek Atambayev Emomali Rakhmonov Cold War Lavrentiy Beria Aleksei Rykov Collectivization Leonid Brezhnev Nikolai Ryzhkov Comintern Nikolai Bukharin Serzh Sargsyan Commissar Konstantin Chernenko Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Commonwealth of Independent States Viktor Chernomyrdin Josef Stalin communism Fedor Dostoevskii Petr Stolypin Communist Manifesto Alexander Dubcek Laimdota Straujuma Communist Party Yuri Gagarin Valentina Tereshkova Comrade Yegor Gaidar Leon Trotsky Congress of People’s Deputies Mikhail Gorbachev Vladimir Voronin Coup d’etat Raisa Gorbachev Lech Walesa Cossacks Maxim Gorky Aleksandr Yakovlev Crimea Vladimir Gusinsky Gennadii Yanaev Cuban Missile Crisis Islam A. Karimov Viktor Yanukovych Cyrillic Mikhail Khodorkovsky Boris Yeltsin Czar bomb Nikita Khrushchev Andrei Zhdanov Soviet Constitution Sergei Kirov Grigorii Zinoviev Crimean Tatars Lavr Kornilov Dacha Aleksei Kosygin GENERAL TERMS Dagestan Vladimir Kryuchkov Afghanistan (Soviet invasion of) Danilov Monastery Vladimir Lenin Agitprop Defect Egor Ligachev Anti-cosmopolitanism campaign De-stalinization Alexander Litvinenko Anti-semitism Dissent/Dissenter Alyaksandr Lukashenka August coup (1991) Dnieper River Georgii Malenkov apparatchik Doctor’s plot Giorgi Margvelashvili Baltic Republics Doctor Zhivago Aslan Maskhadov Basmachi Rebellion Donbass Viacheslav Molotov Battle of Stalingrad Donetsk Vladimir Nabokov Berlin Wall Don River Nursultan A. Nazarbayev Black Sea Duma Boris Nemtsov Bolshevik Party Eurasia Saparmurat Niyazov bourgeoisie Family Code of 1926 2017-18 TERM LIST, CONTINUED Social studies Five-year plans Perestroika Ural Mountains “Former people” Personality cult Volga River Gazprom Petrograd Soviet Volga Germans General secretary Pioneer Organization Warsaw Pact Genoa Conference Pogroms Warsaw Uprising Glasnost Polish October White Russians (Army) Gorky Park Polish-Soviet War Yukos Great Patriotic War Politburo zhenotdel Grozny Pravda Zionism Gulag Proletariat (and dictatorship of) Hungarian Revolution (1956) Propaganda Indigenization The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Industrialization purge Intelligentsia The Great Purge Jadids Red Army KAL flight 007 Red Terror Katyn Forest massacre Refusnik Karakum Canal rehabilitation KGB RSFSR Khrushchev’s Secret Speech Russian Orthodox Kiev Russian Revolution Komosol Russification Kremlin St. Basil’s Cathedral Kulaks Samizdat Leningrad Scissors Crisis Lubyanka September coup (1993) Marxism Serf Memorial Society Siberia Mensheviks Siege of Leningrad Molotov-Rippentrop Pact Solidarity Moscow spiritual directorates Moscow Trials Sputnik Mujahidin Stalingrad New Economic Policy (NEP) Supreme Soviet NKVD Tatarstan Nomenklatura Thaw October Revolution Totalitarianism oblast Twentieth Party Congress (1956) Oligarchs U.S.S.R Orange Revolution Union of Writers