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Hoover Digest: Inside Stalin's Darkroom

For Students 9th - 10th
The article from the Hoover Digest provides accounts of the falsification of photographs, art, and records in Stalinist Russia from a book by David King, "the Commissar Vanishes."
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Hoover Institution: Documents From the Terror

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents from the Hoover Institution detailing the gruesome details of the "reign of terror" that Stalin instituted against the Soviet people from 1936 to 1938 with some earlier and later accounts.
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PBS

Pbs: Red Flag

For Students 9th - 10th
Read two eyewitness accounts of life under Stalin. They explain how Communism became "an all-consuming, all-explaining ideology that appealed to their deepest hopes and dreams."
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Trussel: Crimes of the Stalin Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Trussel.com provides the text of the report to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party by Nikita Khrushchev February 25, 1956 condemning the "cult of personality" surrounding Stalin and condemning Stalin's policies...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Collectivization

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides information on Stalin's domestic policy of rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture for the purpose of erasing all traces of capitalism that results in a totally...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Attacks of Intelligentsia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress shows that among the victims of the Great Terror were artists and intellectuals who were required to promote the socialist consciousness under Stalin.