Slide 1 Understanding 20 th Century Russian History Through Literature: A Workshop for High School Teachers By Gina M. Peirce Assistant Director, Center for Russian and East…

Slide 1 Slide 2  A coalition formed during WWI  Initially consisted on Britain, France, and Russia  Later added Belgium, Italy, and the US Slide 3  An alliance…

Slide 1 The Russian Revolution and the End of World War I Slide 2 Fall of the Czar War - huge burden on Russia –Heavy losses, few supplies, inadequate training, incompetent…

Slide 1 DICTATORSHIPS and WWII DORAN Slide 2 Conservative Authoritarianism 4 Traditional, anti-democratic 4 tried to prevent major changes 4 limited popular sovereignty 4…

* The Soviet Command Economy * I. History The Bolshevik revolution 1917. The Bolshevik revolution in 1917 brought the end of the preceding czarist era. In October 1917 Lenin…

LENIN GENERAL KOLCHAK REDS WHITES Aims 10 Total Bolshevik control of all Russian territory Leadership 10 Confident and disciplined. With Trotsky they devised a plan to pick…

War and Revolution, 1914â1919 26 I. The Road to War A. Growing International Conflict 1. Germanyâs Great Power Status 2. The Alliance Systems 3. The Anglo-German Antagonism…

Lenin, Amber, and the Bolsheviks The tragic love story of an economy without SHOPPING! Shopping is my favorite (favoUrite for you Brits in the audience) hobby Malls are monuments…

Collectivisation In the late 1920s, Russia suffered a food crisis. To feed starving workers, Stalin ordered the seizure of grain from the farmers. But, just as happened under…

 starter activity Study the Soviet posters that follow. What is their message? What links them? Let’s take them by storm – the last year of the five year plan.…