Unit 18: Russian Revolutions & Global Communism

Step One: Read or Listen to Ayn Rand's Anthem

• Ayn Rand's Anthem [full text] Audio book Reading: Male Voice & Female Voice
  • less than 2 hour audio book
  • Discussion Thread open if you would like to discuss this short text

Step Two: Read our Textbook
SLIDE SHOWS

• Russian Revolution
• Strayer's Global Communism [chapter 21]
• The CCP - Chinese Marxism

Documentary

• Land of the Tsars: Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4 [We watched parts one and two in class]
• Rasputin The Real Rasputin (Imperial Russia Documentary) and Rasputin: Land of the Tsars
• Rasputin Historical Docudrama
• History of the Romanov Dynasty
• Russian Docudrama with English Subtitles (Their Version!): The Russian Revolution, Episode 1
• Khan Academy: Communism

Readers:

• Revolutionary Conditions
  • this is a list of existing conditions that lead to revolutions, can you put them in the correct chronological order?
• Collective Pretest
  • no multiple choice questions on the AP shortened exam this year, but a great way to assess how well you understood reading chapter 21 in our Strayer text
• Primary Source: How To Be A Good Communist - A Chinese primary source - very interesting and brief

Crash Course Resources

"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all" - Bob Dylan​