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The R______________ people experienced life under a t________ government in 19____. The last of the c________ abdicated the throne in F______________. A p____________________ government followed for the next ( e________ months. Finally, the violent B__________________ defeated the d__________________ government in a c________ war.

Nicholas II was the l______ of the c________. He had e____________ Russia in W________ War __ where v_____________ seemed unattainable. Also, Nicholas and his family became associated with a f________ healer named R______________. Rasputin's s__________________ behavior shocked many Russians. Additionally, there were many f______ shortages during the cold w__________ of 19____-19____. Nicholas sent in t________ to keep the people from d_______________________.

A p____________________ government followed N______________. The new g__________________ proclaimed c________ liberties and p______________ democratic e________________. Unfortunately, the government was unable to w______________ Russia from the w____ and became associated with it's d____________________. Workers and peasants r______________ against l________________ and f______________ owners. Russia's economy came to a halt as peasants e________________________ land and workers left the f________________.

The B__________________ took control in N____________. L________ was the leader of this v____________ group, who believed in the teachings of K______ Marx. Lenin e__________________ the r__________ against l________________ and factory o____________ although he remained in h__________. On the night of N______________ 6, the B___________________ attacked and met with little r__________________ from the g__________________.

The Ru__________ people learned what it was like to live under a c______, a d__________________ government and a c__________________ government in 19____.

Russia is the world's l____________ nation. It is more than two-and-a-half times the size of the United States. Russia spans the continents of E__________ and A______. The U______ Mountains separate the c__nt__n__n__s. The Asian portion of Russia is known as S____________. The Russian l______________ is part of the S__________ language family.

Russia was a part of the S__________ Union for most of this c____________ and had a communist system. Under communism, the g__________________ controls the p__________________ and d________________________ of g________. The F__________ of Communism was Karl M______, who urged the "w____________ of the w________ to u_______." Russia is no longer a communist nation. Russians now follow a ( c__________________ economic model similar to that of the United States.

The Soviet U__________ became a m______________ and p________________ superpower after W________ War ____, but Russians did not have as much m______________ wealth as A__________________ during the S__________ era. People could not e________ or l________ the Soviet Union without government p__________________. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the people of the S___________ Union as living behind an "I______ c____________."

1. What mountain range separates Europe from Asia?

2. On what continent will you find Siberia?

3. What is a steppe?

· 4. What do you think a "language family" is?

5. What was Sputnik?

· 6. The Soviet Union was a superpower. Based on what you know about words like superstar and super hero, define superpower.

· 7. Why did Winston Churchill describe the Soviet people as living behind an "iron curtain?"

· 8. What might have happened if the United States and the Soviet Union fought a nuclear war?

( A "think" question; the answer is not on the study sheet. Any reasonable answer will be accepted.

Ivan the G_______ is remembered as R__________'s first c______. Czar is the Russian word for k______ and comes from the L________ word "C__________." Ivan was a M________________ when the Moscow was controlled by M___________ warriors from Central Asia. The Mongols forced the Russians to pay t____________, or p____________ for p___________________. Ivan proclaimed himself czar and announced that Russia would no longer pay. The M____________ withdrew from Russia without a fight.

P________ the Great helped to m________________ Russia. He t______________ throughout Europe d________________ as an ordinary t______________. Peter discovered that the rest of E__________ was more technologically a______________ than his nation. He changed that by building many f________________ and s____________. Peter also e______________ Russia's b____________ by c___________________ new lands.

Lenin made many c____________ in Russia. He divided f______________ among Russian peasants and signed a p________ treaty that withdrew Russia from W__________ War I. L________ united several r________________ under his rule and named them the Union of S__________ Socialist R_______________. L________ was a f______ ruler. Those who o______________ the r___________________ were e______________ to S____________ of often m______________.

Lenin was followed by the r______________ Josef S__________ who ruled Russia for · ____ years. Stalin turned Russia into a superpower nation by f____________ Russian p_____________ to w______ on huge c__________________ farms. Stalin a_______________ anyone who was not l________ and often had his opponents m_______________.

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Russia and Communism Assignment 2	Mr. Dowling’s class

1. What Roman leader is honored by the Russian word for king?

2. What is a Muscovite?

3. Who were the Mongols?

4. How did Peter the Great learn that the rest of Europe was more technologically advanced than Russia?

· 5. Describe two ways that Peter the Great modernized Russia.

· 6. Do you feel Lenin was a good leader? Defend your answer. *

· 7. Do you feel Josef Stalin was a good leader? Defend your answer. *

· A "think" question; the answer is not on the study sheet. Any reasonable answer will be accepted

*There is no correct answer to this question, but you must take a position and defend it.

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Russia and Communism Assignment 3	Mr. Dowling’s class

Karl Marx had a great influence on R____________ history despite the fact that Marx as a G__________. Marx argued that w____________, rather than l________________ and should c____________ factories and f________. Marx called for the "w____________ of the w________ to u________" in a w________________ Communist r__________________.

Marx wanted workers to s________ wealth in a c________________ society. He wrote that w___________ should be d______________________ "from e_______ according to his a_________________, to each a________________ to his n________."

Marx was an atheist and felt that w____________ were c__________________ by r_______________. Marx compared religion to a d______ when he said "R______________ is the o__________ of the p__________."

Marx died · ____ years before the Bolshevik Revolution and never saw his ideas put into practice. The Soviet government was s__________ and d________________. Workers had little or no power in the Soviet Union and were forced to w______ on huge collective f________. Factory workers often had to fulfil q__________. The p_________ was c______________ and people who s________ out against the g__________________ were treated h____________.

· 1. What does "dismayed" mean?

2. Describe the conditions of European factories during Karl Marx's lifetime.

3. According to Karl Marx, who should control factories and farms?

4. How did Karl Marx feel wealth should be distributed?

· 5. Was Karl Marx a religious man? Defend your answer.

· 6. Do you think Karl Marx would have been happy as a worker in a Communist nation? Defend your answer.

h A "think" question; the answer is not on the study sheet. Any reasonable answer will be accepted.

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Russia and Communism Assignment 4	Mr. Dowling’s class

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a great Russian w__________ whose n__________ paint a v________ picture of the s________________ against a c________ government.

Solzhenitsyn was s________________ to e________ years of h______ labor in 19_____ after writing a p____________ letter to a friend. The letter was c______________ of Soviet leader Josef S__________. Solzhenitsynwas later "r_habilitated" and allowed to r__________ to his h______. He t__________ high school and w________ novels. Solzhenitsyn wrote about his days in the p__________ labor c________ and of the u__________________ of the S__________ system.

The Soviet government attempted to censor S______________________, but his n__________ were s______________ out of Russia and widely r______ in the rest of the world. The Gulag Archipelago made Solzhenitsyn an international celebrity. The Soviet government could not silence him, so in 19____, they allowed Solzhenitsyn to l________.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn risked p__________ or d________ when he wrote about the Soviet system. His writing r__________ us that a government can treat its c______________ cruelly and that we should l__________ to those who hold c______________ opinions.

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Russia and Communism Assignment 4	Mr. Dowling’s class

1. Why was Alexander Solzhenitsyn arrested in 1945?

2. What did Solzhenitsyn write about?

·3. Why do you think the Soviet government would not allow Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published?

·4. The phrase " Solzhenitsyn was a voice too loud for the Soviet government to silence" is a metaphor; describe what you think that metaphor might mean.

· 5. Why do you feel the Soviet government did not imprison or kill Solzhenitsyn in the 1970s?

·6. What do you think a "dissident voice" might be? Give an example of a dissident voice.

· A "think" question; the answer is not on the study sheet. Any reasonable answer will be accepted.

The U__________ S__________ and the S__________ U________ were the first nations to have the t__________________ for n____________ war. In 1962, the S____________ began constructing n____________ missiles in C______. The A_______________ discovered the missiles and the two nations came close to w____.

Both sides saw the f________ of the "a______ race." They had been s____________________ destructive w____________ and both nations had the ability to d____________ life as we k______ it on our p__________. In the 1970s, the two "s__________________" nations began to d____________ many of their nuclear w____________, but both still had d___________________ arsenals.

The Soviet Union turned to a y____________ generation in 19____ when they s______________ Mikhail G________________ as their leader. Gorbachev was a C________________, but he gave Soviet c______________ more f____________ and tried to r__________ the Soviet e____________.

Gorbachev's g_____________ policies allowed for f____________ of the p________. He allowed the Soviet people to s__________ their own local leaders, and they r______________ the Communist c________________ by a wide margin.

Old style C_________________ attempted a c______ in 19____. Gorbachev stopped the attempted t______________ of the government, but he had lost the s____________ of the people. The era of the Soviet Union had ended. B________ Yeltzin led the new d________________ nation of R________. The other S__________ republics a______________ by L________ were allowed to form I____________________ governments.

1. Who did the Soviets select as their leader in 1983? Why was he different from those who preceded (or came before) him?

2. Identify and translate two of Gorbachev's programs.

· 3. Why do you think the Soviet people rejected Communism when they were allowed to vote?

4. What is a coup?

· 5. Mikhail Gorbachev ran for the Russian presidency in 1997 but won less than one percent of the vote. Why do you think the Russian people rejected Gorbachev?

· A "think" question; the answer is not on the study sheet. Any reasonable answer will be accepted.

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Dowling, Mike., "The Electronic Passport to homework for the Russia and Communism," available from http://www.mrdowling.com/707hw.html; Internet; updated Saturday, May 12, 2001

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