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A&E Television

History.com: Russian Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about the Russian Revolution, including information about Russia before and after.
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InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographia.com: The Path to Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical account from Geographia.com of the events that led the Russians to a Communist revolution in 1918.
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PBS

Kqed: Russian American Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...
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Russian Life: Nikita S. Khrushchev

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian Life offers this article that analyzes Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization policies during the 1950s and 1960s.
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George Mason University

George Mason Museum: Russian Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview from the George Mason Museum of some of the many conflicts that grew out of the Russian Civil War.
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Other

Wwi Document Archive: The Royal Navy in the Caspian Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth account of the role of the Royal British Navy during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. Provides a complete listing of ships and other units that were involved.
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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University: Wwi Document Archive: Abdication of Nicholas Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A copy of the abdication manifesto of Nicholas II on March 15, 1917.
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Marxists Internet Archive

Encyclopedia of Marxism: Kolchak, Alexander

For Students 9th - 10th
This site briefly describes the leader of the White Army, Alexander Kolchak, and the reasons for its defeat.
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Stanford University

Stanford Magazine: A Doomed Democracy

For Students 9th - 10th
An online article on the life of Alexander Kerensky with a focus on his life in the United States when he was a professor at Stanford University.
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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists.org: Maxim Gorky (1868 1936)

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll down to near the bottom of the page and you will find a short biography on Russian playwright, Maxim Gorky. Primarily discusses his association with Russian leader, Lenin.
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University of Vermont: Anna Akhmatova

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a brief history of the life of Anna Akhmatova and how it was changed by the Russian Revolution. Discusses her family (husband and son). Also lists other sites for more information and includes her most famous poem, Requiem.
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Digital History

Digital History: Collapse of Communism

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev and his reforms.

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