1. Objective (READ)

SWBAT describe life in the Soviet Union.

2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION)

3. Warm-up (ANSWER)

1. Which type of economic system did the Soviet Union have?

- Market Economy or Command Economy.

2. Describe the economic system that the Soviet Union had.

Table of ContentsDate Title Lesson #

11/18 EU DBQ 39

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

11/23 Cover Page 40

11/24 Cut-Away Boxes 41

11/30 Human-Environment Interaction

42

12/7 Soviet Union – Social 43

1. Go to the next fresh page.

2. Write the title “HEI”

Soviet Union – Social

1. Rights were restricted

A. no free speech

B. government control of media

C. censorship of art and writing

Censorship prohibiting people from expressing their beliefs or art

1. Rights were restrictedD. Religion is bannedE. Education used to train people to

be loyal communistsF. Violators were sent to Gulags –

Soviet forced labor camps

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

Human rights violations - taking away a person’s rights or persecuting them for their differences.

Joseph Stalin Clip1. Create a list of human rights

violations you observe in the clip.

Directions:• Go to www.wgL09.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 – Copy the headline and COMPLETE THE TASK.

READ ONLY

2. 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 .

COPY THE HEADLINE – But Complete Task

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

3. 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 – and Complete Task

4. Daily Life

- Stalin’s collective farming policies caused massive famine

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

COPY

4. Collective Farming Effects - Watchtower allowing young Communist Party activists to watch for starving peasants attempting to steal corn for their families

READ ONLY

4. Collective Farming Effects - 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

4. Collective Farming Effects:

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

• Task How did people cope with the effects of collective farming? How would you handle this situation if you were living during this time?

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

5. 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…A. Refusing to give land to the

government B. Trading goods (ex. Growing wheat

and selling it to your neighbors)C. TravelingD. Speaking or writing against the

governmentE. Writing songs or other art forms

against the government

COPY THE HEADLINE

Day of Communism Assignment Write a diary entry or sketch a cartoon about a person in the Soviet Union. Your diary must include the following:

1. Day 1 - During the day of communism you violate each of the 5 things people were arrested for. Create real examples of you committing these crimes in your diary/cartoons.

2. Day 2 – During day 2 you get arrested by the Secret Police and are sent to a Soviet Gulag. Describe this experience and life in the Gulag.