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This course is designed for all ages, but the homework and essays are divided into three tiers or categories: 7th grade, 10th grade, and 12th grade Advanced Placement. Please choose whichever is appropriate for you.
 
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==Soviet History Curriculum==
 
==Soviet History Curriculum==
  
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'''Soviet History Lectures'''
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'''Soviet History Lectures''' (104)
 
:[[Soviet History Lecture: Background & Terms]]
 
:[[Soviet History Lecture: Background & Terms]]
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:The Philosophical Background of Communism
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::[[Soviet History Lecture: Background & Terms: Homework|Homework]]
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:The Romanovs and the Rule of the Czars
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Philosophical Background of Communism]]
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:The Russian Revolution
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Romanovs and the Rule of the Czars]]
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:The Murder of the Romanovs
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Russian Revolution]]
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:The Suppression of the Church in Russia
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Russian Civil War: 1917-1922]]
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:The Tambov Rebellion, 1920-1922
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Murder of the Romanovs]]
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:The Kronstandt Rebellion, 1921 & the Collapse of Idealism
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Suppression of the Church in Russia]]
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:The New Economic Policy, 1921
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Tambov Rebellion, 1920-1922]]
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:The Descent of Lenin, 1922-1924
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Kronstandt Rebellion, 1921 & the Collapse of Idealism]]
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:The Struggle for Power: The Ascent of Stalin
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The New Economic Policy, 1921]]
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:Planning in Sets of Five: Five-Year Plans and Economic Centralization, 1928-1991
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Descent of Lenin, 1922-1924]]
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:The KGB, NKVD, Cheka, GRU & the Death of Iron Felix, 1926
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Struggle for Power: The Ascent of Stalin]]
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:The Ukrainian Holodomor: 1933-1936
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Planning in Sets of Five: Five-Year Plans and Economic Centralization, 1928-1991]]
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:Police State: 1930-1953
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Cheka, OGPU, GRU & the Death of Iron Felix, 1926]]
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:The GULAG System: 1935-1955
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Ukrainian Holodomor: 1933-1936]]
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:The Great Purge: 1936-1937
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Police State: 1930-1953]]
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:The Moscow Show Trials: 1936-1937
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The GULAG System: 1935-1955]]
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:The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Great Purge: 1936-1937]]
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:Ribbentrop Pact: 1937-1941
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Moscow Show Trials: 1936-1937]]
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:The Invasion of Finland: 1939-1940
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939]]
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:The Invasion of Poland (1939) and the Tense Peace
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Ribbentrop Pact: 1937-1941]]
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:WW2: 1941-1945
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Finland: 1939-1940]]
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:The Contested Occupation of the Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, 1944-1991
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Poland (1939) and the Tense Peace]]
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:The Katyn Forest Massacre (1940) and the Impact of Chronic Atrocities
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: WW2: 1941-1945]]
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:Yalta and the Advent of the Red Post-War Order: 1945-1946
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Contested Occupation of the Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, 1944-1991]]
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:Stalin's Slave Labor Army: POW's, Prisoners, and the Seven Sisters
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Katyn Forest Massacre (1940) and the Impact of Chronic Atrocities]]
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:Keelhaul and Forced Repatriation, 1945-1950
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Yalta and the Advent of the Red Post-War Order: 1945-1946]]
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:The Origins of the Cold War: 1945-1950
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Stalin's Slave Labor Army: POW's, Prisoners, and the Seven Sisters]]
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:The Soviet Union and the United Nations: 1945-1955
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Keelhaul and Forced Repatriation, 1945-1950]]
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:The Korean War: 1949-1954
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Origins of the Cold War: 1945-1950]]
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:The Soviet Atomic Program: 1949
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Union and the United Nations: 1945-1955]]
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:The Chinese Revolution: 1949-1959
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Korean War: 1949-1954]]
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:The Vietnam Revolution: 1945-1975
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Atomic Program: 1949]]
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:The Kitchen Debate: 1959
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Chinese Revolution: 1949-1959]]
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:The Death of Stalin: 1953
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Vietnam Revolution: 1945-1975]]
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:The Return of the German POW's: 1954
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Kitchen Debate: 1959]]
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:Georgiy Malenkov and Laventii Beria: 1953-1955
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Death of Stalin: 1953]]
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:Nikita Khrushchev: 1955-1964
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Return of the German POW's: 1954]]
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:The Soviet Space Program: 1955-1991
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Georgiy Malenkov and Laventii Beria: 1953-1955]]
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:The "Secret Speech" and De-Stalinization: 1956
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Nikita Khrushchev: 1955-1964]]
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:The Hungarian Revolution: 1956
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Space Program: 1955-1991]]
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:The Cuban Revolution: 1959 & the Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The "Secret Speech" and De-Stalinization: 1956]]
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:The Francis Gary Powers U2 Incident: 1960
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Hungarian Revolution: 1956]]
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:Leonid Brezhnev: 1964-1982
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Cuban Revolution: 1959 & the Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962]]
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:Soviet Corruption and Malaise: 1960-1990
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Francis Gary Powers U2 Incident: 1960]]
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:The Prague Spring: 1968
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Leonid Brezhnev: 1964-1982]]
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:Tensions and Clashes with China: 1969-1991
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Corruption and Malaise: 1960-1990]]
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:Solzhenitsyn, GULAG's, Embarrassments: 1974
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Prague Spring: 1968]]
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:The Invasion of Afghanistan: 1980-1990
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Tensions and Clashes with China: 1969-1991]]
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:Problems in Poland & Eastern Europe: 1980-1991
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Solzhenitsyn, GULAG's, Embarrassments: 1974]]
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:The Soviet's Existential Threat: Ronald Reagan: 1980-1989
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Afghanistan: 1980-1990]]
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:Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko: 1982-1984
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Problems in Poland & Eastern Europe: 1980-1991]]
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:Reinventing the Evil Empire: the elevation of Mikhail Gorbachev
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet's Existential Threat: Ronald Reagan: 1980-1989]]
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:Downing of KAL007, Cold-Blooded Murder of Civilians: 1983
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko: 1982-1984]]
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:Glasnost (1985) and Perestroika (1985)
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Reinventing the Evil Empire: the elevation of Mikhail Gorbachev]]
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:The Chernobyl Disaster: 1986
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Downing of KAL007, Cold-Blooded Murder of Civilians: 1983]]
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:The end of the Berlin Wall and its Key Dates: 1961, 1963, 1987, 1989
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Glasnost (1985) and Perestroika (1985)]]
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:The Coup against Gorbachev: Two Futures for Russia
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Chernobyl Disaster: 1986]]
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:Gorbachev vs. Yeltsin: Two Other Futures for Russia
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The end of the Berlin Wall and its Key Dates: 1961, 1963, 1987, 1989]]
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:Political Collapse: the End of the Soviet Union
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Coup against Gorbachev: Two Futures for Russia]]
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:Russia in the 1990s: the Collapse of Capitalism's Credibility
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Gorbachev vs. Yeltsin: Two Other Futures for Russia]]
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:Russia's Refusal to Confront the Crimes of the Past & Stalinist Revisionism
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Political Collapse: the End of the Soviet Union]]
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:The Left's Refusal to Confront the Soviet Crimes
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Russia in the 1990s: the Collapse of Capitalism's Credibility]]
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:The Soviet Union in Cinema and Culture: 1940-Present
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Russia's Refusal to Confront the Crimes of the Past & Stalinist Revisionism]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Left's Refusal to Confront the Soviet Crimes]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Union in Cinema and Culture: 1940-Present]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Revisionism and the Historians' Debate over Stalin]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Black Book of Communism and the Debate over Communist Death Tolls]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Why There Was No Soviet Nuremberg: 1991-Present]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Memory Laws, Monuments, and the Politics of the Soviet Past: 1991-Present]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Neo-Stalinism and the Rehabilitation of Soviet Symbols: 1991-Present]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Education and the Formation of the New Soviet Man: 1917-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Women and Family Life in the Soviet Union: 1917-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Religion under Communism: Atheism, Persecution, and Survival: 1917-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Propaganda, Censorship, and the Soviet Media State: 1917-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Youth Movements and the Young Pioneers: 1922-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Collectivization and the War Against the Peasantry: 1928-1933]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Dekulakization and the Liquidation of the Kulaks: 1929-1933]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Everyday Life under Stalin: Housing, Food, and Fear: 1930-1953]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Sergei Kirov and the Road to the Great Terror: 1934-1936]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Nikolai Yezhov and the Machinery of Terror: 1936-1938]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Lend-Lease and the Allied Support of the Soviet War Effort: 1941-1945]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Partisans and Resistance Behind Enemy Lines: 1941-1945]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Advance into Eastern Europe: Liberation or Occupation?: 1944-1948]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Life Behind the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe after Stalin: 1945-1989]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Sports, Chess, and International Prestige: 1945-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Cominform and the Export of Revolution: 1947-1956]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift: 1948-1949]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Samizdat and the Underground Press: 1950-1991]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The East German Uprising: 1953]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Sino-Soviet Split: Mao, Khrushchev, and the Fracturing of Communism: 1956-1976]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Sputnik and the Space Race with America: 1957-1969]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Corruption and the Rise of the Nomenklatura: 1960-1990]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Berlin Wall: Escape, Division, and Death: 1961-1989]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Literary War against Communism: 1962-1994]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Everyday Life in the Soviet Union: Housing, Consumer Goods, and Shortages: 1965-1985]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Era of Stagnation: Economic Decline and Bureaucratic Malaise: 1965-1985]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Andrei Sakharov and the Soviet Dissident Movement: 1968-1989]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Détente and Nuclear Diplomacy: 1969-1979]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Refuseniks, Sharansky, and the Struggle to Emigrate: 1970-1986]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: SALT I, SALT II, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Parity: 1972-1979]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Pope John Paul II and the Spiritual Revolt against Communism: 1978-1989]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: Solidarity and the Crisis in Poland: 1980-1989]]
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:[[Soviet History Lecture: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Collapse of Eastern Europe]]
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'''Soviet History Exams'''
 
'''Soviet History Exams'''
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* Soviet History: Exam: Multiple Choice (50)
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* [[Soviet History: Exam: Multiple Choice]]
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* Soviet History: Exam: Multiple Choice Answers
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* [[Soviet History: Exam: Multiple Choice Answers]]
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* Soviet History: Exam: Short Answer (10)
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* [[Soviet History: Exam: Short Answer]]
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* Soviet History: Exam: Short Answer Answers
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* [[Soviet History: Exam: Short Answer Answers]]
 
* [[Soviet History: Exam: Essay Prompts]]
 
* [[Soviet History: Exam: Essay Prompts]]
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* Soviet History: Exam: Essay Answer Outlines
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* [[Soviet History: Exam: Essay Answer Outlines]]
  
 
'''Soviet History Essays'''
 
'''Soviet History Essays'''
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* [[Essay: Explaining the Economic Failures of Communism]]
 
* [[Essay: Explaining the Economic Failures of Communism]]
 
* [[Essay: The Millions who Died by Communism]]
 
* [[Essay: The Millions who Died by Communism]]
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* [[Essay: The Wars Started by Communism and Why it Utilizes War]]
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* [[Essay: The Wars Started by Communism and the Utilization of War]]
 
* [[Essay: Communism's Opposition to Individualism]]
 
* [[Essay: Communism's Opposition to Individualism]]
 
* [[Essay: Communism's Cult of Personality & Abuse of Psychology, Propaganda]]
 
* [[Essay: Communism's Cult of Personality & Abuse of Psychology, Propaganda]]
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* [[Essay: Prominent Historians of Communism]]
 
* [[Essay: Prominent Historians of Communism]]
 
* [[Essay: Key Facts, Figures, and Massacres Covered up by Left-Wing Academics]]
 
* [[Essay: Key Facts, Figures, and Massacres Covered up by Left-Wing Academics]]
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* [[Essay: Why Communism Always Leads to Death Camps]]
 
* [[Essay: Delineating Between Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism]]
 
* [[Essay: Delineating Between Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism]]
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* [[Essay: Dissecting the Meme of 'True Communism has never been tried']]
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* [[Essay: The Rebirth of Communism by the American Far-Left in 2008 & 2020]]
  
 
== Miscellaneous ==
 
== Miscellaneous ==
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*[[Essay:Greatest Mysteries of World History]]<BR><BR>
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* [[Essay:Greatest Mysteries of World History]]
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*[[Essay:Greatest Myths of World History]]<BR><BR>
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* [[Essay:Greatest Myths of World History]]
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*[[Essay:Liberal Denials about History]]<BR><BR>
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* [[Essay:Liberal Denials about History]]
  
 
[[Category:World History lectures]]
 
[[Category:World History lectures]]

Latest revision as of 05:00, June 17, 2026

This course is meant to cover the history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1991.

This course is designed for all ages, but the homework and essays are divided into three tiers or categories: 7th grade, 10th grade, and 12th grade Advanced Placement. Please choose whichever is appropriate for you.

If you would like feedback & grading on homework or essays, please contact me on my talk page and I will be happy to provide that for you.

Soviet History Curriculum

Soviet History Lectures (104)

Soviet History Lecture: Background & Terms
Homework
Soviet History Lecture: The Philosophical Background of Communism
Soviet History Lecture: The Romanovs and the Rule of the Czars
Soviet History Lecture: The Russian Revolution
Soviet History Lecture: The Russian Civil War: 1917-1922
Soviet History Lecture: The Murder of the Romanovs
Soviet History Lecture: The Suppression of the Church in Russia
Soviet History Lecture: The Tambov Rebellion, 1920-1922
Soviet History Lecture: The Kronstandt Rebellion, 1921 & the Collapse of Idealism
Soviet History Lecture: The New Economic Policy, 1921
Soviet History Lecture: The Descent of Lenin, 1922-1924
Soviet History Lecture: The Struggle for Power: The Ascent of Stalin
Soviet History Lecture: Planning in Sets of Five: Five-Year Plans and Economic Centralization, 1928-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The Cheka, OGPU, GRU & the Death of Iron Felix, 1926
Soviet History Lecture: The Ukrainian Holodomor: 1933-1936
Soviet History Lecture: Police State: 1930-1953
Soviet History Lecture: The GULAG System: 1935-1955
Soviet History Lecture: The Great Purge: 1936-1937
Soviet History Lecture: The Moscow Show Trials: 1936-1937
Soviet History Lecture: The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939
Soviet History Lecture: Ribbentrop Pact: 1937-1941
Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Finland: 1939-1940
Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Poland (1939) and the Tense Peace
Soviet History Lecture: WW2: 1941-1945
Soviet History Lecture: The Contested Occupation of the Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, 1944-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The Katyn Forest Massacre (1940) and the Impact of Chronic Atrocities
Soviet History Lecture: Yalta and the Advent of the Red Post-War Order: 1945-1946
Soviet History Lecture: Stalin's Slave Labor Army: POW's, Prisoners, and the Seven Sisters
Soviet History Lecture: Keelhaul and Forced Repatriation, 1945-1950
Soviet History Lecture: The Origins of the Cold War: 1945-1950
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Union and the United Nations: 1945-1955
Soviet History Lecture: The Korean War: 1949-1954
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Atomic Program: 1949
Soviet History Lecture: The Chinese Revolution: 1949-1959
Soviet History Lecture: The Vietnam Revolution: 1945-1975
Soviet History Lecture: The Kitchen Debate: 1959
Soviet History Lecture: The Death of Stalin: 1953
Soviet History Lecture: The Return of the German POW's: 1954
Soviet History Lecture: Georgiy Malenkov and Laventii Beria: 1953-1955
Soviet History Lecture: Nikita Khrushchev: 1955-1964
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Space Program: 1955-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The "Secret Speech" and De-Stalinization: 1956
Soviet History Lecture: The Hungarian Revolution: 1956
Soviet History Lecture: The Cuban Revolution: 1959 & the Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962
Soviet History Lecture: The Francis Gary Powers U2 Incident: 1960
Soviet History Lecture: Leonid Brezhnev: 1964-1982
Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Corruption and Malaise: 1960-1990
Soviet History Lecture: The Prague Spring: 1968
Soviet History Lecture: Tensions and Clashes with China: 1969-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Solzhenitsyn, GULAG's, Embarrassments: 1974
Soviet History Lecture: The Invasion of Afghanistan: 1980-1990
Soviet History Lecture: Problems in Poland & Eastern Europe: 1980-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet's Existential Threat: Ronald Reagan: 1980-1989
Soviet History Lecture: Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko: 1982-1984
Soviet History Lecture: Reinventing the Evil Empire: the elevation of Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet History Lecture: Downing of KAL007, Cold-Blooded Murder of Civilians: 1983
Soviet History Lecture: Glasnost (1985) and Perestroika (1985)
Soviet History Lecture: The Chernobyl Disaster: 1986
Soviet History Lecture: The end of the Berlin Wall and its Key Dates: 1961, 1963, 1987, 1989
Soviet History Lecture: The Coup against Gorbachev: Two Futures for Russia
Soviet History Lecture: Gorbachev vs. Yeltsin: Two Other Futures for Russia
Soviet History Lecture: Political Collapse: the End of the Soviet Union
Soviet History Lecture: Russia in the 1990s: the Collapse of Capitalism's Credibility
Soviet History Lecture: Russia's Refusal to Confront the Crimes of the Past & Stalinist Revisionism
Soviet History Lecture: The Left's Refusal to Confront the Soviet Crimes
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Union in Cinema and Culture: 1940-Present
Soviet History Lecture: Revisionism and the Historians' Debate over Stalin
Soviet History Lecture: The Black Book of Communism and the Debate over Communist Death Tolls
Soviet History Lecture: Why There Was No Soviet Nuremberg: 1991-Present
Soviet History Lecture: Memory Laws, Monuments, and the Politics of the Soviet Past: 1991-Present
Soviet History Lecture: Neo-Stalinism and the Rehabilitation of Soviet Symbols: 1991-Present
Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Education and the Formation of the New Soviet Man: 1917-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Women and Family Life in the Soviet Union: 1917-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Religion under Communism: Atheism, Persecution, and Survival: 1917-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Propaganda, Censorship, and the Soviet Media State: 1917-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Youth Movements and the Young Pioneers: 1922-1991
Soviet History Lecture: Collectivization and the War Against the Peasantry: 1928-1933
Soviet History Lecture: Dekulakization and the Liquidation of the Kulaks: 1929-1933
Soviet History Lecture: Everyday Life under Stalin: Housing, Food, and Fear: 1930-1953
Soviet History Lecture: Sergei Kirov and the Road to the Great Terror: 1934-1936
Soviet History Lecture: Nikolai Yezhov and the Machinery of Terror: 1936-1938
Soviet History Lecture: Lend-Lease and the Allied Support of the Soviet War Effort: 1941-1945
Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Partisans and Resistance Behind Enemy Lines: 1941-1945
Soviet History Lecture: The Soviet Advance into Eastern Europe: Liberation or Occupation?: 1944-1948
Soviet History Lecture: Life Behind the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe after Stalin: 1945-1989
Soviet History Lecture: Sports, Chess, and International Prestige: 1945-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The Cominform and the Export of Revolution: 1947-1956
Soviet History Lecture: The Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift: 1948-1949
Soviet History Lecture: Samizdat and the Underground Press: 1950-1991
Soviet History Lecture: The East German Uprising: 1953
Soviet History Lecture: The Sino-Soviet Split: Mao, Khrushchev, and the Fracturing of Communism: 1956-1976
Soviet History Lecture: Sputnik and the Space Race with America: 1957-1969
Soviet History Lecture: Soviet Corruption and the Rise of the Nomenklatura: 1960-1990
Soviet History Lecture: The Berlin Wall: Escape, Division, and Death: 1961-1989
Soviet History Lecture: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Literary War against Communism: 1962-1994
Soviet History Lecture: Everyday Life in the Soviet Union: Housing, Consumer Goods, and Shortages: 1965-1985
Soviet History Lecture: The Era of Stagnation: Economic Decline and Bureaucratic Malaise: 1965-1985
Soviet History Lecture: Andrei Sakharov and the Soviet Dissident Movement: 1968-1989
Soviet History Lecture: Détente and Nuclear Diplomacy: 1969-1979
Soviet History Lecture: Refuseniks, Sharansky, and the Struggle to Emigrate: 1970-1986
Soviet History Lecture: SALT I, SALT II, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Parity: 1972-1979
Soviet History Lecture: Pope John Paul II and the Spiritual Revolt against Communism: 1978-1989
Soviet History Lecture: Solidarity and the Crisis in Poland: 1980-1989
Soviet History Lecture: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Collapse of Eastern Europe


Soviet History Exams

Soviet History Essays

Miscellaneous