1. Objective (READ)

SWBAT identify the Russian reform policies after the fall of Communism.

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

3. Warm-up (ANSWER)

1. Why did Stalin treat his people so poorly?

2. Was he successful in meeting his goals?

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

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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.

Table of ContentsDate Title Lesson #

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

11/24 Cut-Away Boxes 41

11/30 Human-Environment Interaction

42

12/7 Soviet Union – Social 43

12/8 Soviet Union – Economics 44

1. Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work.

2. Write the title “Soviet Union - Economics”

Life in the Soviet Union - Economics

1922-1991

Background – Economic Policies

- Economic System = Command Economy

- Main Economic Policy = Rapid Industrialization

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1. Command Economy

A. Government controls all businesses and takes land

B. Equal pay crushes incentive to work hard

2. Massive Cold War Spending

A. Arms Race - Built up military

Cold War Clip Questions

Arms Race Clip

1. Why did the Soviet Union detonate atomic weapons near Kazakhstan?

2. What effect did this have on the environment?

2. Massive Cold War Spending

A. Arms Race - Built up military

B. Wars – Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan, Latin America

2. Massive Cold War Spending

A. Arms Race - Built up military

B. Wars – Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan, Latin America

C. Space Race

3. Collective Farming

- Soviet government kicks farmers off their land

- Sets up huge government-run farms Collectivization

- Takes their ability to generate income

Table of ContentsDate Title Lesson #

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

11/24 Cut-Away Boxes 41

11/30 Human-Environment Interaction

42

12/7 Soviet Union – Social 43

12/8 Soviet Union – Economics 44

12/8 Fall of Communism 45

1. Draw a line underneath yesterday’s work.

2. Write the title “Fall of Communism”

The Fall of Communism

Background - Situation during the 1980s

1. Soviets invade Afghanistan – to support the Communist government in the Afghan Civil War.

2. People were sick of Communism’s negative effects – Stalin’s Purges, Industrialization at all costs

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Fall of Communism

Reason #1 – Soviet Union runs out of money.

Why???

- Rapid industrialization = expensive

- Fighting and funding wars to spread communism = expensive

- The negative economic effects of communism did not increase wealth

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Task

• Sketch two examples of how the economic effects of communism caused the Soviet Union to run out of money.

- Rapid industrialization = expensive

- Fighting and funding wars to spread communism = expensive

- The negative economic effects of communism did not increase wealth

Fall of Communism

Reason #2 – Weakened central government in the Soviet Union.

Why???

- Government lacked the money to carry out its policies.

- Revolutions started in former USSR republics.

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Fall of Communism

Reason #3 – People wanted freedoms and rights.

Why???

- Society was sick of purges and industrialization at all costs.

- Wanted to enjoy freedoms like the rest of the world

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Political Revolutions in the Republics

• http://future.state.gov/when/timeline/1969_detente/fall_of_communism.html

• Answer the questions below:1. What were the effects of the collapse of the Berlin

Wall?2. Describe the revolutionary movements in the

Republics. 3. Why did the revolutionaries have the confidence to

attempt revolution?

Fall of Communism – Reason #3 Social Factors

• http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/fall-of-communism-in-russia-faq.htm

• Answer the question below from the website above. 1. How did the Great Purge under Stalin contribute to

the Fall of Communism?2. How was religion viewed under Communism?3. Explain the negative effects of Communism’s

economic policies. 4. Describe the state of Russia’s political system when

Gorbachev took power.

Policies• Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the USSR in 1985 and began

two reforms that signaled the end of the Communist government and command economy…

1. Perestroika (economic changes, including a shift to a market economy)

2. Glasnost (openness, the government would no longer keep secrets and have a free media)

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1. Perestroika – the restructuring of the Soviet economy.

Shift to market economy.

Privatization of many businesses and industries.

Government Policies

• Directions: In your notebook, complete the Frayer Model below.

PRIVATIZATION 2. Definition selling government-owned businesses to regular citizens.

3. How is this different from life under the Soviet Union?

4. Sketch

Gorbachev’s Policies

2. Glasnost - the policy of openness in the government

transparency in the activities of all government institutions

the freedom of information