DOCUMENT RESUME ED 406 275 SO 027 047 AUTHOR Schwartz, Donald, Ed.; And Others TITLE Understanding Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union through History and Literature, 50 Lesson Plans. INSTITUTION California State Univ., Long Beach. SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 89 NOTE 144p.; This publication resulted from a 1989 summer institute at California State University, Long Beach. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher)(052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Communism; Foreign Countries; Literary History; *Marxism; *Russian Literature; Secondary Education; *Socialism; Social Studies; Teaching Guides; *World History IDENTIFIERS Russia; USSR ABSTRACT This resource book provides 50 learning activities with background materials for teaching about tsarist Russia and the emergence of the Soviet Union. Use of literature, history, geography, primary sources, various learning strategies are all included. The lessons provide study of 19th and 20th century events to Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika. Many lesson plans reflect special requirements of the California History/Social Science Framework, which recommends the integration of literature, primary sources, and cooperative learning strategies. (EH) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** 50 Lesson Plans on UNDERSTANDING REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION THROUGH. 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Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. 0 1989 Summer Institute at California State University, Long Beach Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Understanding Revolutionary Russia 50 Lesson Plans on UNDERSTANDING REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION THROUGH HISTORY AND LITERATURE Dr. Donald Schwartz Project Director Dr. Toivo Raun Dr. Harold Schefski Project Faculty 1989 Summer Institute at California State University, Long Beach Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities 3 Lession Plans for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This guidebook is result of a 1989 summer institute at California StateUniversity, Long Beach, "Understanding Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union Through History and Literature,"funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities. The summer programwas conducted for secondary school social science teachers from various districts in Southern California. Professor Toivo Raun of California State University, Long Beach servedas the content specialist in Russian and Soviet History; Professor Harold Schefski of California State University, LongBeach, coordinated the literature component for the institute; and Dr. Donald Schwartz of California StateUniversity, Long Beach, served as the Project Director. We are indebted to Carol Craven for her clerical assistence and a special note of gratitudeto Sharon Olson of California State University, Long Beach, whose technical and editorial contributionwas essential to the production of this document. The lesson plans contained in this guidebook reflect the creativity and scholarship of the twenty-six teachers who attended the institute. PARTICIPANTS IN THE INSTITUTE NAME SCHOOL DISTRICT Anthony Armendariz Jefferson High School L.A. Unified Monts Armstrong Cerritios High School ABC Unified Bob Atherton Los Alamitos High School Los Alamitos Unified Tom Bergeson Gahr High School ABC Unified Paul Bethel Whittier High School Whittier Unified Donna Carrington Robert Casserek Westminster High School Huntington Beach Union Betty Cramer Chaffey High School Chaffey Unified Jay Green Cypress High School Anaheim Unified Jean-Paul Martel Long Beach Public Schools Long Beach Unified Gene Moffitt Poly High School Long Beach Unified Todd Mohrfeld St. Anthony's High School Archdioses of Los Angeles Donna Morel St. Joseph High School Archdioses of Los Angeles Dorothy Paige Compton High School Compton Unified Graham Pink Bassett High School Bassett Unified Garry Rhoades Edison High School Huntington Beach Bill Richardson Natalie Roesch Norwalk-La Mirada Unified Gloria Robles Bell Garden High School Montebello Unified Dan Scarborough Ontario High School Chaffey Unified Larry Smith Pioneer High School Whittier Unified Mary Stebbins Jordan High School Long Beach Unified Fred Steeby Carr Intermediate Santa Ana Unified Dave Tallman Edison High School Huntington Beach Union Bob Taylor Kraemer Jr. High School Placentia Unified Dick Wilkerson Poly High School Long Beach Unified Dr. Donald Schwartz contributed to the material containedon these pages and served as editor for this guidebook. Finally we would like to acknowledge the support and assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities which made the project possible. Understanding Revolutionary Russia CONTENTS* Page 1 Lesson Plan 1: Geographic Influences on Russian and Soviet Society 3 Lesson Plan 2: Physical Geography of Russia 4 Lesson Plan 3: People of the Soviet Union 7 Lesson Plan 4: Political, Social, and Economic Problems faced by the Soviet Union Over the Issue of Nationality (Cooperative Learning) 11 Lesson Plan 5: Russian Poetry and Themes in 19th Century Russian History (Literature, 1 Cooperative Learning) 20 Lesson Plan 6: Russian Serfdom Vs. U.S. Slavery (Cooperative Learning) 1 21 Lesson Plan 7: Political Development of Russia Between 1861 and 1917 22 Lesson Plan 8: Religion in Tsarist Russia 23 Lesson Plan 9: Russian Expansionism (Cooperative Learning) 26 Lesson Plan 10: The Struggle for Change in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Literature) 28 Lesson Plan 11: Revolutionary Tradition in Russia (to 1905) (Cooperative Learning) 29 Lesson Plan 12: The Revolutionary Tradition in Russian History (Literature) 34 Lesson Plan 13: What Causes People to Revolt Against Their Government? 35 Lesson Plan 14: The 1905 Revolution (Literature, Cooperative Learning) 37 Lesson Plan 15: The Revolution of 1905 (Primary Sources) 40 Lesson Plan 16: The Bolshevik Revolution (Primary Sources) 43 Lesson Plan 17: Continuity and change in the October 1917 Russian Revolution (Cooperative Learning) 44 Lesson Plan 18: Russian Revolution of March 1917 45 Lesson Plan 19: Comparison of the French and Russian Revolutions (Cooperative Learning) 46 Lesson Plan 20: The Russian Revolution of March 1917 48 Lesson Plan 21: Causes of the March 1917 Revolution (Primary Sources, Cartoon Interpretation) 50 Lesson Plan 22: Conditions in Russia After the October 1917 Revolution (Primary Sources, Literature) 53 Lesson Plan 23: Effect of the Communist Revolution on the People of the Soviet Union 54 Lesson Plan 24: Russian Civil War (Cooperative Learning) 5 Lession Plans for 55 Lesson Plan 25: Stalin's Leadership (Primary Sources) 58 Lesson Plan 26: Stalin and the Five Year Plans 62 Lesson Plan 27: Changes Wrought by Rapid Industrialization Under Stalin (Primary Sources) 65 Lesson Plan 28: The Terror of Joseph Stalin (Primary Sources) 68 Lesson Plan 29: The Purges of Stalinist Russia (Primary Sources) 72 Lesson Plan 30: Purges Under Stalin (Literature) 75 Lesson Plan 31: Oppression Under Stalin (Literature, Cooperative Learning) 78 Lesson Plan 32: Comparison of the Holocaust and the Famine in the Ukraine (Literature) 81 Lesson Plan 33: Comparison of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin 84 Lesson Plan 34: Stalin and World War II (Primary Sources) 88 Lesson Plan 35: Impact of World War II on Soviet Society (Literature) 90 Lesson Plan 36: Stalinism and De-Stalinization (Literature) 93 Lesson Plan 37: Solzhenitsyn's Criticism of Stalinism (Literature) 96 Lesson Plan 38: American View on the Cold War as Seen Through Political Cartoons 99 Lesson Plan 39: The Origins of the Cold War (Primary Sources) 102 Lesson Plan 40: Conflicting Interpretations of the Cold War (Historiography) 107 Lesson Plan 41: Communist Revolutions in China and the Soviet Union 110 Lesson Plan 42: China and the USSR Compared 113 Lesson Plan 43: The Sino/Soviet Split 114 Lesson Plan 44: The Reform Tradition in Russian and Soviet History (Cooperative Learning) 115 Lesson Plan 45: Gorbachev and the Policy of Perestroika (Primary Sources) 120 Lesson Plan 46: Resistance to Gorbachev's Reforms (Literature, Cooperative Literature) 126 Lesson Plan 47: Soviet Leaders Since 1917 128 Lesson Plan 48: Political Role of Women in the USSR, 1955-1975 130 Lesson Plan 49: Religion in the Soviet Union (Literature) 135 Lesson Plan 50: Current Problems in the Soviet Union (*Note: Many of these lesson plans reflect special requirements of the California History/Social Science Framework, which recommends the integration of literature, primary sources and cooperative learning strategies. Such features are noted following the lesson topics.) Understanding Revolutionary Russia LESSON PLAN 1 TOPIC: GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES ON RUSSIAN AND SOVIET SOCIETY OBJECTIVE: Students will have an understanding and insight into the influences that geographyand climate have played on the evolution of Russian history.