Chapter 1
Supplementary Materials
Watch
Examine the building of the Berlin Wall (3 minutes)
What is Socialism (3 minutes)
The Russian Revolution 1917 (5 minutes)
Witness Project: Wanda Wos Lorenc (12 minutes)
Communism | The 20th century | Khan Academy (15 minutes)
The Bloody History of Communism Full (129 minutes)*
*Violence, adult situations, and disturbing content. For older students only. Consider gaining parental permission.
Read
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes (2003)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Witness by Whittaker Chambers (1952)
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940)
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikotter (2019)
How to Be a Dictator: An Irreverent Guide by Mikal Hem (2017)
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois et al. (1999)
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Communism
101
Learn the terms, ideologies, events, and people of Communism.
Tools of
Communism
Explore how the ideology is maintained by violence and information control.
Communism and Religion
Study how communist regimes have sought to destroy God and religion.