{"id":2851,"date":"2013-11-19T21:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:02:35","slug":"lenins-russia-newly-rewritten-and-relaunched-roleplay-unit-for-ib-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/lenins-russia-newly-rewritten-and-relaunched-roleplay-unit-for-ib-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenin&#8217;s Russia, newly rewritten and relaunched roleplay unit for IB History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lenin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2817\" alt=\"lenin\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lenin-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/A_Level\/Late_Modern\/Russia_and_the_USSR\/USSR_under_Lenin.php\">This unit is taught completely through roleplay<\/a>! Each student takes on the role of a different Politburo member and researches &#8216;their&#8217; perspective on the key issues facing the new Soviet state. The teacher takes the role of President Kalinin, acting as Chair. Each lesson then works through issues &#8220;as they arise&#8221; between 1918-24, with plentiful use made of primary sources and round-table discussions. As Lenin&#8217;s decisions on each issue are outlined, students can then make notes not just on &#8216;what happened&#8217; but on how controversial these decisions were and how far Lenin was abandoning his communist ideology in favour of pragmatism; they will also get a very thorough understanding of the different splits in the party which Stalin is later able to exploit to such devastating effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This unit is taught completely through roleplay! Each student takes on the role of a different Politburo member and researches &#8216;their&#8217; perspective on the key issues facing the new Soviet state. The teacher takes the role of President Kalinin, acting as Chair. Each lesson then works through issues &#8220;as they arise&#8221; between 1918-24, with plentiful&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/lenins-russia-newly-rewritten-and-relaunched-roleplay-unit-for-ib-history\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-JZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}