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Digital History: Collapse of Communism HandoutDigital History: Collapse of Communism Handout
Publisher
Digital History
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1330L
Handout

Digital History: Collapse of Communism

Curated by ACT

Overview of the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev and his reforms.

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Concepts

communism, mikhail gorbachev

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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