Lenin's Russia, 1918-1924

Interactive Simulations

Decision-making Game

The USSR under Lenin
How can you help Lenin rule Russia after seizing power in 1917? A comprehensive decision-making game complete with a worksheet which will give students a thorough grounding in the main events and issues of the period.

Interactive Running Dictation Exercise

The Crisis Year: 1921
Students are provided with an interactive news "feed" that throws out events "as they happen" like a ticker-tape. They have to jot down as much as they can in the time have available and then produce a biased newspaper report about the events of the year.

Interactive Arcade Games

Manic Miner Games

a. The USSR under Lenin

2.	Wordshoot Quizzes
	b. The USSR under Lenin

3.	Cannonball Fun Quizzes
	b. The USSR under Lenin
4.	Fling the Teacher Quiz
	USSR under Lenin
5.	KeyWord Challenge: Lenin's Russia [Interactive] If you are unfamiliar with the format of the game, click here for instructions.

Worksheets

1.	Political Oppression: From the Constituent Assembly to the Red Terror
2.	Political Concession: The 1918 Constitution
3.	Peace and War: From Brest-Litovsk to Civil War
4.	The issue of National Minorities
5.	War Communism
6.	The Crisis Year: 1921
7.	The New Economic Policy
8.	Divisions within the Party by 1924
9.	Conclusion on Lenin
10.	Summary: Lecture Notes / Student Worksheet
11.	Lenin's Russia: Historiography

History in the News for Lenin's Russia, 1918-1924

1. Barack Obama compared to Hitler and Lenin in Tea Party billboard A roadside billboard created by a branch of the Tea Party in Iowa comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin has been condemned by other groups in the movement.
2. The London haunts of VI Lenin
3. Russian heir demands Tsar Nicholas II murder investigation
4. Lenin statue vandalised by Ukrainian Nationalists
5. Vladimir Lenin died from syphilis, new research claims
6. Vatican thumbs up for Karl Marx after Galileo, Darwin and Oscar Wilde
7. Romanov grand duchessâ€™s hidden jewellery found
8. Russian diamonds smuggled into UK after WW1
9. Lenin's nose put out of joint in Kiev
10. China plans a Karl Marx musical
11. DNA testing ends mystery surrounding Czar Nicholas II children
12. CNBC claims "Comrade" Obama is a "Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin"
13. Russia's last Tsar declared victim of repression
14. Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth
15. Georgia fails to escape its past (BBC)

History weblinks for Lenin's Russia, 1918-1924

1. Seventeen Moments
2. Foreign Policy: Thoroughly Modern Marx
3. Ebook: Rasputin and the Russian Revolution (1918) Highly biased account by a Russian Princess.
4. Ebook: The Russian diary of an Englishman, Petrograd, 1915-1917
5. Ebook: The Russian Revolution 1917 Eyewitness Account Volume I (1962)
6. Ebook: The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 (EH Carr) Volume 2
7. Ebook: The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 (EH Carr) Volume I
8. Lenin's Russia, 1918-1924