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Class Flow: Russian Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will learn the origin, means to maintain power, successes and fall from power of single party states. Students will also be able to describe characteristics of single party...
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Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides some of Lenin's personal thoughts. It includes his ideas on heavy industry for Russia.
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Bucknell University: A Chronology of Russian History

For Students 9th - 10th
An abridged timeline that details the history of Russia from 860 to present day.
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PBS

Kqed: Russian American Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Twentieth Century Europe: Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Guide provides a selection from the Lectures on 20th century Europe. Discusses the impact of the Bolshevik revolution on Russia.
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Curated OER

Russian Revolution

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Russian Revolution
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Curated OER

Russian Revolution

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Russian Revolution
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Curated OER

Russian Revolution

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Russian Revolution
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George Mason University

Gmu: The Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of the intervention and human costs of the Russian civil war. Gives a detailed background of the war.
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Other

Wwi Document Archive: The Royal Navy in the Caspian Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth account of the role of the Royal British Navy during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. Provides a complete listing of ships and other units that were involved.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Signet Classic: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Sixteen-page teacher guide for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" contains enlightening introductory, overview, and language information. Also included are excellent writing activites and list of...
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Alexander palace.org: Russian History Websites

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice collection of online "books" and virtual exhibits about various Russian tsars, their palaces, and life during the height of imperial era to the final days of tsars. Includes an up-close look at Anastasia, a collection of letters...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1970 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was honored "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature."
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: Origins of the Cheka

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a letter from Lenin to Dzerzhinsky December 17, 1917 about measures to be taken against the bourgeoisie.
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Flow of History

Flow of History: The Road to World War Two (1939 45)

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher-created site that examines the flow of events that led to the outbreak of World War II.
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Russia: From Revolution to Counter Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a book online by Ted Grant. This particular page is the introduction written by Alan Woods. He discusses Bolshevism and the Russian revolution. Further chapters from the book are available.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel about the animals of Manor Farm that drive out the human farmers and assume control. As time progresses, the dynamic amongst the animals moves from unity and equality to tyranny. Selected (7) reading...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides an in-depth encyclopedia article on World War I, giving information about the origins of the war, the initial outbreak, new technology introduced during the war, the Russian Revolution,...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Leon Trotsky

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of the life of Leon Trotsky. Discusses his life before the Russian Revolution, his political accomplishments afterwards, his opposition to Stalinism, his exile and his assassination.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Empire That Was Russia

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful on-line exhibition of photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii offers "A vivid portrait of a lost world - the Russian Empire on the eve of world War I and the coming revolution." The site also has photos of ethnic...
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Hanover College

Hanover College: American Account of Fall of the Czar 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of a telegram sent by the American Consul in St. Petersburg on the fall of the Czar and his replacement by the Duma. The telegram is dated March 20, 1917.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
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Digital History

Digital History: America at War: The Guns of August

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the course of World War I on both the eastern and western fronts. See how the upheaval in the world brought about attempts at revolution in several countries.
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The Fundamental Law of Land Socialization

For Students 9th - 10th
The law issued by the Bolsheviks confiscating all land issued in 1918.