Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

David Remnick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 151 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

David Remnick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 151 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• On August 19, 1991, reports circulate saying that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is stepping down due to health concerns.

• Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky, from the Soviet Military Prosecutor's Office, uncovers the graves of thousands of Polish officers who were sentenced to death by Josef Stalin almost fifty years before.

• Most Russians until recently were ignorant of the purges, executions, or illegal imprisonments that took place during Stalin's reign.
• The Kremlin's propaganda campaigns had successfully provided a laundered view of Russian history.

• Gorbachev decreed that the blanks of Soviet history be filled in, and the truth about the history of Russian land and government brings shame to the Soviet people.

• Party leaders attempt to stop Gorbachev and return the Communist Party to power.

• The KGB orders Tretetsky to stop the excavations; but he refuses, and despite sabotage attempts, he and his crew continue.

• On August 21, 1991, the coup fails, and Tretetsky tells...

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