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A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union

Internet Exercises

Reactionary Russia

Pobedonotsev was a leading voice of traditional Russian autocracy. What was the core of his argument?

Link 1
(http://artsci.shu.edu/reesp/documents/pobedonotsev.htm)

Revolutionary Russia

What is Lenin's argument in What is to be Done? (1902)?

Link 1
(http://www.marx2mao.org//Lenin/WD02NB.html)

For whom would you vote? Looking at the platforms of political parties or organizations, for which would you vote in the Duma elections of 1906-07? Why?
Link 1 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/sdprog.html)



Link 2 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/mensprog.html)



Link 3 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/srprog.html)



Link 4 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/kadprog.html)



Link 5 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/natsprog.html)



Link 6 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/17octprg.html)



Link 7 (http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/urpprog.html)

Was the Russian Revolution a social revolution?

Analyze these data on wages and prices in Russia, 1914-1917 to determine the situation facing consumers in Russia on the eve of the Revolution.

Link 1
(http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/revolution/johnreed/economic.htm)

Lenin versus Stalin? What window onto Stalin's personality before he came to power do we gain from these insights of Lenin?
Link 1 (http://www.marx2mao.org//Lenin/LLDT23.html)



Link 2 (http://www.marx2mao.org//Lenin/LTCS23.html)

Stalin versus Trotsky How does Stalin undermine Trotsky's standing in the Soviet Union?
Link 1 (http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1921/jan/05.h... )



Link 2 (http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/11_19.htm)

A left-wing critic of the Soviet Union

In 1923 the American anarchist Emma Goldman published My Disillusionment in Russia, detailing her experiences in the Soviet Union. In this selection, how does she characterize the betrayal of revolutionary principles by the Communist regime?

Link 1
(http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1920s/disillusionment/afterword.h... )

Propaganda as Art and Idea Analyze the nature of visual discourse in these examples of internal Soviet propaganda.
Link 1 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/lenin-clean.html)



Link 2 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/antireligion.html)



Link 3 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/fit-reading.html)



Link 4 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/lebedev-rifle.html)



Link 5 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/strakhov-march8.html)



Link 6 (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/defend-petrograd.html)



Link 7 (http://www.brama.com/art/poster.html)

Purge Trials What insights into the spirit of the Old Bolsheviks do we get from the trials of the 1930s?
Link 1 (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/a2rykov.html)



Link 2 (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/b2bukhar.html)

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