Chapter 5
Supplementary Materials
Watch
Lenin & Trotsky – Their Rise to Power (12 minutes)
The Red Terror (1918) – How the Bolsheviks Went on a rampage after the Russian Revolution (14 minutes)
Vladimir Lenin: The Founder of the Soviet Union (22 minutes)
Dr. Zhivago* – available on Amazon Prime and YouTube (3 hours and 17 minutes)
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Lenin: The Man, The Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen (2017)
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes (1997)
What Is To Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin (1902)
Party Organization and Party Literature by Vladimir Lenin (1905)
Lenin Collected Works
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin (2017)
The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police by George Leggett (1981)
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes (2001)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
Doctor Zhivago* by Boris Pasternak (1957)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Party Organization and Party Literature by Vladimir Lenin (1905)
Lenin Collected Works
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin (2017)
The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police by George Leggett (1981)
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes (2001)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
Doctor Zhivago* by Boris Pasternak (1957)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
*Contains some adult content such as violence, language, sexual content, and substance use: appropriate for older students
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