Table of Contents – RussiaDate Title Lesson #

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

12/8 Cover Page and Map 28

12/9 Cut-Away Boxes 29

12/10 Human-Environment Interaction 30

12/16 Life Under Communism 31

12/18 Soviet Union - Economics 32

12/19 Soviet Union - Social 33

Soviet Union – Social

Joseph Stalin Clip• Create a list of human rights

violations you observe in the clip.

• Human rights violations = taking away a person’s rights like free speech, religion, property, pursuit of happiness, etc.

1. Rights were restricted- no free speech- no media- all art must support the

Communist party

Censorship prohibiting people from expressing their beliefs or art

2. More rights restrictions

- Religion is banned

- Education was used to train people to be loyal communists

- Task Sketch a picture for each of the two rights restrictions listed above.

Directions:• Go to www.orso2ndperiod.wikispaces.com

– Click 3rd Marking Period– Scroll all the way to the bottom– Click on the power point file titled “Life in the Soviet Union

– social”

• If the slide says COPY then copy the notes.

• If the slide says READ ONLY, then just read it.

• If the slide says COPY HEADLINE – But Complete the Task, then do that.

READ ONLY

Education – designed to make them loyal and patriotic citizens

• All books were created by government approved writers

• The information would guard students against the influence of communism's many enemies Democracy and market economics.

• Students memorized slogans favorable to Lenin and Stalin and their works would inspire them to carry on the goals of the party .

Task Create an example of a homework assignment or in-class activity that could occur in a Soviet classroom.

COPY THE HEADLINE – But Complete Task

Religion – Worship the government instead of Christianity

• According to communism, political leaders, would quickly replace religious leaders.

• Religion was considered useless superstition, whereas communism was considered a science, a better way of thinking and acting.

• There was no place in a Communist society for Christian ideas that promised salvation and heaven for the well-behaved individual, as measured by the Bible.

Task – Why would a communist leader want people to worship the government instead of religion?

COPY THE HEADLINE – But Complete Task

3. Daily Life

- Stalin’s collectivization policies caused massive famine

- Famine = a huge lack of food that causes widespread starvation.

COPY

Watchtower allowing young Communist Party activists to watch for starving peasants attempting to steal corn for their families

READ ONLY

“Peasants are removing hidden grain. Any peasant whose grain was found was automatically treated as a kulak, and deported or shot; yet to hide some grain was a matter of survival."

READ ONLY

• Cannibals caught with pieces of human flesh near the Volga River, 1921. This was during the height of collectivization in the Ukraine.

• Task How did people cope with the effects of collective farming (collectivization)?

READ ONLY and Complete the Task

4. Stalin’s Purges Stalin killed millions of people who he felt were against communism.

Stalin relocated millions of people to Siberia and Kazakhstan to seize their land

COPY

Police State - citizens were imprisoned, killed, or relocated for illegal activities.

• Secret Police – plain-clothes officers who worked for the government

• Things people were arrested for…

– Refusing to give land to the government

– Trading goods (ex. Growing wheat and selling it to your neighbors)

– Traveling– Speaking or writing against the

government– Writing songs or other art forms

against the governmentCOPY THE HEADLINE – But Complete Task

Task Give an example of something a person could do in the US that would get him/her in trouble in the Soviet Union

Directions• After you have copied all the notes complete the Social –

Historical section of the project – Social – Historical = a newspaper article or pen pal letter

• If you have not finished your Economic – Historical (Acrostic Poem or Propaganda Poster) you may work on that.

• If you have not finished your timeline you may work on that.

• You must be working on some form of the project.