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The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at Stanford University and the Bay Area Global Education Program presented:
2004 Teacher Training Workshop:
Stalin and the Rise of Soviet TotalitarianismSaturday, February 7, 2004 Center for Educational Research at Stanford
Funding for this workshop was provided by grants from the United States Department of Education (Title VI).
Program
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
"Stalin: the Man and the System"10:30 a.m.– 12:00 noon
David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor in International History and Professor of Political Science
"Stalin as War Leader and Statesman"2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Bertrand Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution and Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford
"Stalin’s Ghost - the Cult and Legacy of Stalin"
Professor Patenaude will introduce a showing of the 1990 documentary film Stalin’s Ghost, a one-hour documentary film made for NBC News in 1990. Using excerpts from rarely seen Soviet feature films of the 1930s and 1940s, it traces the rise of the Stalin cult in the USSR to its culmination in the years following World War II. As the film shows, after Stalin's death and right through to the collapse of communism, Soviet society struggled to deal with Stalin's legacy. In the new openness of the Gorbachev years, this led to a flood of new revelations about the crimes of Stalin and his regime, which ultimately helped to undermine the entire Communist regime. Professor Patenaude will lead a discussion of the film afterward.
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Terry Haugen, BAGEP Teacher Trainer
"Curricular Resources on Stalin and Totalitarianism"
Terry Haugen will present curricular, video and web resources on Stalin and the phenomenon of Stalinism.
Further Resources on the Stalin Era provided by Terry Haugen, BAGEP
The Newseum: Under Stalin many pictures were changed as the purges took place. The Newseum has a collection of "before and after pictures" based on David King’s book located at http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/
The Library of Congress site has several primary sources and an explanation of those sources from the Soviet Archives dealing with industrialization and collectivization at http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html
In 1942 Joseph Stalin was Time’s Man of the Year. The cover and cover article are located in Times World War II archives at http://www.time.com/time/newsfiles/worldwar2/#
An on-line exhibit about the Gulag may be found at the Open Society Institute’s site at http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag/ In order to view it, scroll across, rather than down the page.
An article for students with links, primary and secondary sources about the purges is located at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpurge.htm
A collection of posters and descriptions about them from throughout the Soviet Era including those from the Five Year Plans may be found at http://www.soviet-poster.com/poster_history.htm#Bolshevik, though many of the links of the posters are from commercial sites.
Mt Holyoke has a list of links dealing with Stalin located at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/stalin.htm
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/ This site has a large collection of Soviet era, Chinese and Cuban posters with descriptions of them. Click on the small posters for more information and larger versions of each.
Primary and secondary sources dealing with Stalin may be found at The Internet Modern History Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html#Stalinism
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Russia.htm is a British site to support teachers and students. The high lighted section about Russia includes background information and some lessons.
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/index.htm Recommended for use by teachers as students may not recognize some bias. The site has a collection of Socialist Realist Art from the Stalinist period. It also includes many of Stalin’s works at http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/
The first page of a multi-page section about Stalin from a Saskatchewan World History class may be found at http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_content/history20/unit2/sec1_01.html
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/stalin/welcome.html is an entire course on Stalin’s Russia from Western New England College. Included are lectures, maps and essay questions.
On its Mosaic site, Houghton Mifflin has links to many resources, including posters from the Hoover Institution dealing with the Russian Revolution and the Stalinist period at http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter15/module49.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm A short description of Stalin’s role in the Ukrainian famine
http://www.stel.ru/stalin/index.htm is a Russian site devoted to Stalin. It contains many documents and an extensive chronology of the Stalinist period.
http://www.periclespress.com/russiaml.html Political and economic chronology of Stalin’s Russia. Additional information may be found at http://www.periclespress.com/whistory.html
Durham University has a collection of primary sources from Russian and Soviet History including Stalin’s "Dizzy with Success" speech at http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/Russhist.HTML
An extensive list of links on the Inter-War Period created by a teacher may be found at
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-Inter-WarYears.htm
An excerpt about Stalin from History Today may be found at http://www.historystudystop.co.uk/php/displayarticle.php?article=39&topic=meu Use the other topics on the left side of the page to find further information.http://www.slavweb.com/eng/Russia/history-e.html contains an extensive, categorized list of links, including those to primary sources, dealing with many aspects of the Stalinist period.
http://www.casahistoria.net/Stalin2.htm#3.%20General:%201927-41 has a well organized list of links about Stalin and includes primary sources.
Lesson Plans and Student Activities
A Constitutional Rights Foundation lesson plan dealing with the Stalinist purges is available on-line at http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria7_4.htm#stalin
The British Archives has a section in "Heroes and Villains of the 20th Century" in which students must determine whether Stalin was a hero or a villain in his industrialization policies through the use of primary sources. http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/heroesvillains/stalin/default.htm
One of CTAP’s World History Course Model’s which deals with Totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and includes a Case Study on Stalin may be found at http://www.history.ctaponline.org/center/hsscm/index.cfm?Page_Key=1560
A lesson plan on the Ukrainian famine may be found at Columbia University’s site at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/famine.html
The Kansas University Center for Russian and East European Studies has a collection of classroom activities in PDF format. Included are two on the Cold War and another on the Siege of Leningrad at http://www.ku.edu/~crees/outreach/teachers.shtml
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/alevel/modern_european_stalin.shtml School History, a British site, has a selection of useful links and lesson for secondary teachers dealing with the topic of Stalin.
"Did Stalin Cause the Cold War?" is the question asked in the Cold War section of the British Archives Learning Curve website at http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/coldwar/G3/cs1/default.htm
A lesson plan in which students do research and then create radio broadcasts from totalitarian states may be found at http://www.shenet.org/high/hsacaddept/socialstudies/jpfaffenbach/TenthGrade/jpjanuary/jpradio.htm
The PBS Teacher’s Guide to its video Red Flag may be found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/teachers/tgred.html