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David Hilton

Welcome to the Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections - 2 views

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    "The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I." Not to mention there were a few other countries involved as well... Contains primary sources and images.
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    The "American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919," nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," was a U.S. military intervention in northern Russia at the end of World War I.
Ed Webb

Does Russia need a memory law? | openDemocracy - 2 views

  • Those drafting it had heeded Napoleon’s exhortation to the creators of his constitution to ‘Write it in such a way that it is brief and obscure’.
  • assical memory laws defend the memory of all who suffered from crimes committed by the government or with its support. France has laws covering denial of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire or the fact that the slave trade was a crime against humanity. The memory law proposed in Russia is fundamentally different. It intends, above all, to defend its memory of itself. More precisely, it intends to defend its memory of that régime which many consider criminal. After all, accusations of unleashing war and installing régimes of occupation are accusations levelled at Stalin and Stalinism.
Eric Beckman

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Libra... - 3 views

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    Amazing color photos from Imperial Russia
David Korfhage

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 8 views

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    Amazing and beautiful color pictures from early 20th century Russia, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
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    These are unbelievable. What a find.
Nate Merrill

Thirteen Days Movie Lesson - 7 views

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    Topics: U.S./1945 - 1991; World/Russia; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cold War;
David Hilton

The Russian Photography Collection 1917-1945 / Fine Art Photographs Russia / Silver-Gel... - 1 views

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    This is a collection of photographs of Russia throughout it's history. They seem to be quite high-quality images.
David Korfhage

Russian Revolution Timeline 1917 | Home - 5 views

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    This is a timeline-based website at MIT on the Russian Revolution.  In addition to having links to primary and secondary sources, it provides an interesting model for assessment or project-based learning.
Aaron Shaw

Khanate of the Golden Horde - 3 views

  • It is even thought that bubonic plague spread to Europe after the Mongols laid siege to the port of Kaffa on the Crimean peninsula in 1346. After their own forces were stricken with plague, the Mongols catapulted their corpses over the walls into Kaffa. The ships that left Kaffa and returned to Italy carried the disease. 
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    The Golden Horde is best known as that part of the Mongol Empire established in Russia. Originally, however, it consisted of the lands Genghis Khan (1165-1227) bequeathed to his son Jochi (1184-1225): the territories west of the Irtysh River (modern Kazakhstan) and Khwarazm (consisting of parts of modern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan)
Deven Black

Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900's - Plog Photo Blog - 1 views

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    I've seen these before and they're just awesome! Keith Dennison 735am.wordpress.com
David Hilton

National Library of Russia - 6 views

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    Has links to images of artefacts and documents and is in clear, correct English.
Ed Webb

BBC News - History, with rose-tinted hindsight - 5 views

  • As one official explained, "we understand that school is a unique social institution that forms all citizens"; which means it is essential they should be taught history, especially the right kind of history. "We need a united society," the apparatchik goes on, and to achieve that end, "we need a united textbook".
  • in 1934, it was Stalin himself who convened an earlier meeting of historians to discuss the very same issue, namely the teaching of history in Russian schools. He disapproved of the conventional class-based accounts then available, which were strongly influenced by Marxist doctrines, and which traced the development of Russia from feudalism to capitalism and beyond. Not even Stalin's hometown wanted to be associated with him anymore... "These textbooks," Stalin thundered, "aren't good for anything. It's all epochs and no facts, no events, no people, no concrete information." History, he concluded somewhat enigmatically, "must be history" - by which, in this case, he meant a cavalcade of national heroes, whose doings might appeal more broadly to the Russian people than the arid abstractions of class analysis and social structure.
  • Who, for example, should decide what history is taught in schools: should it be the government, or academic experts, or examination boards, or the schools themselves, or even the parents?
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  • for the last 18 months, I've been leading a project, based at the Institute of Historical Research, which is looking into the history of the teaching of history in schools in England since it first became a serious activity early in the 20th Century. And one of our most important discoveries so far has been the extent to which similar questions have been asked across the decades and generations, and often in complete ignorance of how they've been answered before.
David Hilton

Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states) : Media : - 4 views

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    The Kennan Institute and National Public Radio in the USA has established an online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history. "The archive consists of recordings dating back to the earliest years of the Soviet state. Included are the voices and speeches of key political figures, including Lenin, Kerensky, Kirov, Beria, Stalin, Gorbachev, and others. Among the recorded interviews are Anna Larina (Bukharin's widow); Valentin Berezhkov, Stalin's wartime interpreter; Yelena Bonner, Sakharov's widow; and Lev Pevsner, a survivor of the Leningrad Blockade. There is also on-the-scene recorded sound of many events in Soviet history, including: the Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe; Stalin's funeral; the August 1991 coup against Gorbachev. [...] The material comes from Soviet and Russian sources, the NPR archives, the archives of the BBC, and individual donors. Some of the material is in Russian, some in English. "
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    The bulk of the audio files are in Russian, however if you scroll down closely there are speeches by significant Western figures too. Yet another excellent set of resources from the Woodrow Wilson Center.
David Korfhage

Russian Revolution, Civil War and USSR 1917-1991 - EuroDocs - 6 views

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    Primary sources on the Russian Revolution
David Hilton

Lenin Internet Archive - 2 views

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    A collection of documents, images and audio sources on Lenin. The Communist, not the Beatle.
Deven Black

SS Curriculum Guides - 22 views

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    These are a set of out-of-print guides made by the NYC Board of Education in 1993-1994. They are full of primary sources, short text selections and activities which many teachers have found very useful. Although designed for 7th and 8th grade they can be modified for high school and elementary school. Many teachers have used these over the last 17 years to help them develop their lessons. They are large files so they will take a few minutes to open. Note that both sets follow the same format but the 8th grade guides were done with a modern text style and therefore "looks" much better.
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