Chapter 6
Supplementary Materials
Watch
The Great Purge: History Matters (3 minutes)
Death of Stalin: Unique Propaganda Footage shows Stalin’s funeral (2 minutes)
Stalin’s Warning for the Future (4 minutes)
What do Russians think of Stalin (3 minutes)
Ten Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union (13 minutes)
Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror (20 minutes)
Evolution of Evil: Joseph Stalin (50 minutes)
Why Does Joseph Stalin Matter? (46 minutes)
Mr. Jones* Available on Apple TV or Amazon Prime
Within the Whirlwind* Available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime
The Inner Circle* Available on DVD
Listen
Joseph Stalin Pt. 1: Soviet Union, Dictators – Podcast (39 minutes) available on Spotify
Joseph Stalin Pt. 2 Soviet Union, Dictators – Podcast (39 minutes) available on Spotify
Read
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
The Great Terror by Robert Conquest (1968)
Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin (2013)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore (2003)
Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia’s Secret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky (1996)
Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest (1991)
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
*Contains some adult content such as violence, language, sexual content, and substance use: appropriate for older students
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