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Peer reviewedJones, Dianne – Social Studies, 1986
Provides examples of Soviet literature which describe the character and everyday life of children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on how political and economic realities shape the Soviet character. (JDH)
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education, Russian Literature
Download full textSchwartz, Donald, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This resource book provides 50 learning activities with background materials for teaching about tsarist Russia and the emergence of the Soviet Union. Use of literature, history, geography, primary sources, various learning strategies are all included. The lessons provide study of 19th and 20th century events to Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika.…
Descriptors: Communism, Foreign Countries, Literary History, Marxism
Cole, Robert A., Ed.; Vaillant, Janet G., Ed. – 1993
These teacher-developed activities help the student to gain a greater awareness of the richness of Russian history and the Soviet past. New materials have been added from the original version and much has been updated. The volume is not a full curriculum but can be integrated into existing study of the world region. The book is divided into five…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Foreign Countries, Geography, Global Education
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1972
This glossary is intended to assist students seeking to broaden their knowledge of Russian as it is currently spoken. The lexical items, largely consisting of idioms and colloquialisms, are listed with English translations, in the order of their appearance in the text and grouped to correspond to each individual page of the book. The novel is…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cultural Education, Disadvantaged, Expressive Language
Talbot, Elizabeth, Ed.; Vaillant, Janet G., Ed. – 1985
Intended to provide middle school and high school teachers and others interested in Russia and the Soviet Union with a guide to printed materials, this booklet is divided into several sections. The first section, comprising the bulk of the publication, is devoted to reviews of 69 books that were written for classroom use or appear as if they might…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Culture
Jones, Dianne – 1983
By distinguishing between the Soviet government and the Russian people in Soviet studies, teachers can assist students in forming positive but realistic attitudes about Russia. Geography, music, art, and literature offer a wealth of information about Russia. A good starting point is a discussion of Russian children: the age at which they enter…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Husum, Carol – 1969
This syllabus is an outline of a one semester course in Imperial Russia designed to emphasize the relationship between Russia's past and her present. Course content begins with the founding of the first Russian state and continues to the fall of the Romanovs in 1917. In addition, some topics are suggested for investigation of Russian history in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
