Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Moscow - This is the largest city in the Soviet Union and was the capital of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

Russia - This country was ruled by a czarist monarchy and became a dominant region of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Soviet Union - This country was formed in 1920 after the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

Communism - This is a principle based on socialism where citizens in a society share ownership of production.

Stalinism - This is a type of Communism enforced during the 1940s...
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