DOCUMENT RESUME ED 365 585 SO 023 473 TITLE The Soviet Successor States and Eastern Europe. Teachers' Guide. Revised. INSTITUTION Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Russian and East European Inst. SPONS AGENCY Department of Education, Washington, DC. PUB DATE Apr 93 NOTE 291p. AVAILABLE FROMRussian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 565, Bloomington, IN 47405. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher)(052) EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; *Human Geography; Maps; Nationalism; Physical Divisions (Geographic); *Political Divisions (Geographic); Secondary Education; *Social Change; Social Studies; Teaching Guides IDENTIFIERS *Europe (East); Russia; *USSR ABSTRACT This document is a guide to provide teachers and curriculum consultants with an up to date overview of the histories, cultures, and current issues concerning the region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It is not intended as an in depth study of the area or people. The guide is divided into two parts. The first discusses the Soviet successor states. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is treated as a separate entity of the Soviet successor states. Several pages on the organization of the CIS precede the Russian section in which Soviet history is discussed. Next each of the successor states are discussed. These are arranged alphabetically and include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldava, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. These are followed by a bibliography for Soviet successor states. The second section is Eastern Europe. The countries listed here are Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and the Slovak Republic. The countries of former Yugoslavia are arranged alphabetically, Bosnia and Hercogovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), and grouped as South Slaves. A section on Yugoslavia history and South Slav chronology follows. A bibliography for Eastern Europe ends the section. A map precedes the discussion of each country. Each country chapter is individually paginated. The chronologies of er country chapter are taken primarily from the Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Research Institute Reports. 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Prepared by the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute New Revised Edition APRIL 1993 Made possible by funding from the U.S. Dcpanmcnt of Education, under Title VI of the Higher Education Act: National Resource Centers and Foreign Langauge and Area Studies MST COPY AVAILABLE The purpose of this guide is to provide teachers and curriculum consultants with an up-to-date overview of the histories, cultures and current issues concerning the region of the former-Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This is not intended to be an in-depth study of these countries and their people. Since the guide was first produced by the Russian and East European Institute staff, it has gone through many permutations. This is very much a collective effort, and as such, compromises have been made both due to time and human resource constraints, and as a direct effect of the constantly changing picture of this area of the world. The faculty and graduate students of the Russian and East European Institute have been contributing their time and talents to this project for almost ten years. Each year, we hope it will get easier: it continues to be more difficult. Editorial and organizational decisions have been made in the spirit of providing information. Therefore, the as is still treated as a separate entity as the Soviet Successor States, though the Baltic States are treated as individual countries within the Eastern Europe section. The countries of former Yugoslavia are arranged alphabetically and grouped as South Slays, though one could argue that this should be changed, and no doubt in the next version of this guide it will be. The efforts of the REEL staff have been to keep the guide current, not to provide analysis of the issues at hand. The common issues of political and economic reform are discussed in each country section. The guide's aim is to provide a historical context in which to understand the current events in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet successor states. To the extent that we might make the task of the teacher easier by providing such a frame of reference from which to build lesson plans, then we have succeeded in accomplishing our mission. We welcome suggestions for future editions. The few pages on the organization of the CIS precede the Russia section (in which Soviet history is discussed), followed by the successor states (arranged alphabetically), and then by Eastern Europe (arranged alphabetically). Each country chapter is individually paginated (hopes were to have a looseleaf document to which updated chronologies could be added each year). The chronologies of each country chapter are taken primarily from the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute Reports. Throughout the guide references have been made to audio-visual materials appropriate to specific issues or countries, but this is not an exhaustive reference. Teachers are encouraged to request the REEI Resource Guide to Teaching Aids in Russian and East European Studies Available for Loan or Rent from Indiana University. As a National Resource Center for Slavic Languages and Area Studies, the Outreach services of the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute include the Outreach Speakers' Bureau, which sends university faculty and graduate students free of charge to speak to your classroom, school or community group on a broad range of topics; presentations to meetings of social studies and language arts teachers (state-wide, system- or district-wide, or individual schools); honors seminars for high school students; curriculum and lesson plan reviews; and a lending library of audio-visual materials for which the only cost is return postage and insurance. Write to the address below to request a free copy of the REEI Resource Guide to Teaching Aids in Russian and East European Studies. The REEI Outreach program is rather flexible, and if you'll let us know how we can best serve your needs, we'll make an effort to respond. The original concept of this guide was developed by Karen S. Niggle, REEL Outreach Coordinator from 1984 to 1989. REEI graduate assistants contributing their talents to the original document (1986-87) included Robinaisha, Melissa Bokovoy and Phyllis Schrock. Eastern Europe additions and revisions were effected in 1988-89 through graduate assistants Tim Costello, John Cox, Shaun Gelsinger and Sue Panek. A major revision of the guide was carried out in April 1990 under the direction of Ellie Valentine by REEL Graduate Assistants Bryan Costello, D. Michael DeLuca, Suzanne Polak, and Larry Wright, continued in 1991 by Vince Comerchero, Mary Dakin, Diane Kraft and Suzanne Polak. Linda Dausch, Suzanne Dietrich, Jeff Pennington and William McFadden tackled the 1992 revisions. This 1993 edition was a collective effort of graduate assistants Edward Barrall, Melissa Caldwell, Derek Johnson, and Kelly Moore under the editorial supervision of Robin Bisha. For information on REEI services contact Associate Director, Ellie Valentine. Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 565, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, Phone: (812) 855-7309 Fax: (812) 855-2701 E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Table of Contents Soviet Successor States CIS 1-4 Russia 1-30 Armenia 1-7 Azerbaijan 1-5 Belarus 1-6 Georgia 1-9 Kazakhstan 1-5 Kyrgyzstan 1-3 Moldova 1-8 Tajikistan 1-5 Turkmenistan 1-4 Ukraine 1- I I Uzbekistan 1-6 Bibliography for Soviet successor states Eastern Europe Albania 1-9 Bulgaria 1-12 Czech Republic 1-12 Estonia 1-8 Hungary 1-13 Latvia 1-7 Lithuania 1-7 Poland 1-15 Romania 1-14 Slovak Republic 1-11 South Slays Bosnia and Hercogovina 1-6 Croatia 1-5 Macedonia 1-4 Slovenia 1-4 Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 1-4 Yugoslavia History 1-4 South Slav Chronology 1-10 Bibliography for Eastern Europe Please note that a map preceeds the discussion of each country. 100.4III I AMOS 01410,9414;09 Incliarmanged THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES Russian rts. 147 neon 11989 cents.) 11fits*27op4ata4is latentas of 04.59vs.11911321:09411969 319715113111Russ10 InrilEn17011Sopsenue. 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