Transcript Life in the Soviet Union - social - orso2ndperiod

Table of Contents – Russia
Date
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 government
Task  Give an
example of
something a
person could do
in the US that
would get
him/her in
trouble in the
Soviet Union
COPY THE
HEADLINE – But
Complete Task
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.