What you must do in this unit
- Read the textbook chapter 33.
- Check the remarks by Professor Blois and Professor Evans on the NEP and the 1920s.
- Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the Unit.
- Submit the Lenin's Testament paragraph.
What you can do in this unit
- The Bolshevik socio-economic policy implemented during the Civil War was called "War Communism." I have available Professor Hammond's notes on war communism and the transition to the New Economic Policy (*.PDF file).
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- Vladimir Lenin's funeral
- Embalming Lenin, Lenin Sleeps
- 1920s The New Economic Policy NEP Life In A Provincial City
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the URL and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- For up to 25 points of extra credit, watch Doctor Zhivago and compare the movie to the book in a one-page paper.
- For up to 25 points of extra credit, read Nina Tumarkin, Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia (1983) and write a one-page paper explaining how the cult of Lenin developed after Lenin's death.
- For up to 25 points of extra credit, read Stephen Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 (1973) and write a one-page paper in which you explain why Bukharin was unable to challenge Stalin for leadership of the communist party.
- For up to 25 points of extra credit, read Evgenii Zamiatin, We (1924) and write a one-page paper in which you explain the author's satire.
- For up to 10 points of extra credit, read Stalin, "Socialism in One Country," and write a paragraph analysis of Stalin's main ideas.
Unit Learning Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to (1) demonstrate a knowledge of the important historical developments of the 1920s in Soviet Russia (2) and analyze a historical primary source.