This course covers the history of Russia/Soviet Union from roughly 1450-present. Topics to be studied include: geography, the Romanov dynasty, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Communist regime and totalitarian systems, the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and current events. 

Class lessons include lecture, video, primary source documents, and whole-class discussions.  Quarter and semester grades are determined by the total points at the end of each grading period. 

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
~Leon Trotsky

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Current Events Project  DUE: April 4, 2011

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Unit 1
Lecture Series (powerpoints)
       Geography: "You Can't Understand Russia without Understanding her Geography"
        Russian State Tradition:  Who are the Russian People?

Video: "Alexander Nevsky"

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Unit 2
Lecture Series (powerpoint)
      Ivan IV -- Ivan the Terrible

Video:
     "Ivan the Terrible" pt 1
     "Ivan the Terrible" pt 2

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Unit 3
Lecture Series (powerpoint)

Romanovs  1725-1801
Romanovs 1801-1917

Document:
Bishop Burnet's Impression of Peter the Great
Petition Prepared for Presentation to Nicholas II on "Bloody Sunday" (January 5, 1905)
October Manifesto

Video:
     "Fiddler on the Roof" 

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Unit 4
Lecture Series (powerpoint)

World War I
Bolshevik Revolution
Early Years of the Soviet Union  powerpoint

Documents:
Worker' Petition to the Tsar, January 9, 1905
October Manifesto (Nicholas II)

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Unit 5
Lecture Series (powerpoint)

Middle Years of the Soviet Union

Documents:
Khrushchev's Secret Speech to the Party Congress
Khrushchev's Letter to President Kennedy

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Unit 6
Lecture Series (powerpoint)

Later Years of the Soviet Union

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Unit 7
Lecture Series

Fall of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991)
Rise of Russian Federation
21st Century Russia

Video: "CNN Presents: Czar Putin"