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Artifact 1 A few days after the German Invasion, the Supreme Evaluation Council was set up. In the course of the War, most Jewish men were drafted into the Soviet Army, as were men from the rest of the population. Many Jews served as Generals in Senior command possitions "Soviet Union. " Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Ed. Israel Gutman. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1990. World History in Context. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 2 The Treaty on the creation of the Soviet Union was adopted about 90 years ago on December 30, 1922, by representatives from Belarus, Russia, South Caucasus, and Ukraine. After heated debates about the form of the union, all four republics agreed on establishing a federation. This was a compromise between a confederation model proposed by the joining republics, and a unitary Russian state with some autonomy for the annexed territories Website Title: In Custodia Legis Law Librarians of Congress Article Title: Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union – Signed, Sealed, […] Date Accessed: April 22, 2014 Li Website Title: In Custodia Legis Law Librarians of Congress Return to Article Title: Treaty on the Creation of the Exhibit Soviet Union – Signed, Sealed, […] Date Accessed: April 22, 2014 nked citation goes here

Artifact 3 The Soviet Union was formally led by eight different men: Lennin, Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Cherenko, and Gorbachev. Out of all of these leaders, Stalin led the Soviet Union the longest. • Website Title: wise. GEEK • Article Title: Who Were the Leaders of the Soviet Union? • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 Return to Exhibit • Link. Website Title: cille 85 • Article Title: Joseph Stalin Poster • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 ed citation goes here

Artifact 4 In the Years following WW 1 and the Russian Revolution, the Soviets attempted to export Communist revolutions to nearby nations including Germany, Finland, Hungary, and Mongolia. Lennin’s Bolsheviks consolidated their power over most of the old Czarist Russian Empire in the Russian Cival War, which lasted from 1917 to 1923. * Both the picture and the information have the same link. • Linke. Website Title: The History Guy • Article Title: The Wars and Conflicts of the Soviet Union • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 to d citation Return goes here Exhibit

Artifact 5 While Stalin was In control, families had to watch what the state allowed, read what e state allowed, and see what the state allowed. Anyone found doing otherwise was severly punished. It was hard for a family back when Stalin ruled. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 6 Stalin developed something called the personality cut. Artists painted pictures glorifying Stalin. He developed the name “Uncle Joe” because he was considered the kind homely father of Russia. This was called “Social Realism”. Those who wrote poems had to write about Stalin in a way that glorified him. • Website Title: History Learning Site • Article Title: Search the History Learning Site • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 • Website Title: pictures of soviet union - Google Search to • Article Title: Return pictures of soviet Exhibit union - Google Search • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014

Artifact 7 As a result of Lenin’s “Top Down” revolution, Lenin described women as “domestic slaves”. The Bolsheviks’ gender policy was about the straightforward acknowledgement of equality between men and women. The biological difference between genders served as a marker that outlined social roles. Women were involved extensively in physical labour, and including the most difficult work. • Website Title: - History • Article Title: Gender in the USSR • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 • Website Title: - History • Article Title: Gender in the Return to USSR Exhibit • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014

Artifact 8 The USSR’s Family Law of 1968 confirmed the central role of women in the family, defining it as “providing the necessary social conditions for a happy combination of motherhood with increased active and creative involvement in industrial and socio-political life. ” The only women worthy of respect were the ones who did men's work. • Website Title: - History • Article Title: Gender in the Return to USSR Exhibit • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014

Artifact 9 In 1985 the Soviet work force totaled about 130. 3 million people. According to official statistics, almost 20 percent of these employees worked in agriculture and forestry, while slightly more than 38 percent worked in industry and construction. In 1985 just under 32 percent of the work force was employed in distribution and other service jobs. *Website Title: Soviet Union - Labor Article Title: Soviet Union - Labor Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 • Website Title: Harun Yahya • Article Title: Harun Yahya Return to • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014 Exhibit

Business and factories • The Soviet parliament approved a property law allowing private ownership of small factories and other businesses for the first time since the early 1920 s, as part of a movement toward a mixed economy • "The Soviet Parliament Passes a New Property Law, March 6, 1990. " Historic World Events. Detroit: Gale, 2012. World History in Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2014. • • Website Title: World War 2 Planes • Article Title: Return Sovietto Aircraft in Exhibit World War 2 - World War 2 Planes • Date Accessed: April 23, 2014

Artifact 11 Stalin chose a policy in 1928 that forced peasants into state owned collective farms. Stalin resorted to slave and forced labor in order to provide food for the rapidly industrializing Soviet cities. On November 7, 1929, Stalin formally unleased a new revolution, the so called Great Industrialization Drive which said that peasants weren’t allowed to own the land or to profit from crop sales. • Atkins, William Arthur. "Forced Labor: USSR. " St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Ed. Neil Schlager. Vol. 1. Detroit: St. James Press, 2004. 325329. World History in Context. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. • • Website Title: Mail Online Return to • Article Title: Stalin murdered 20 million people, including. Exhibit my grandfather -[…] • Publisher: Associated Newspapers • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014 • Author: Owen Matthews

Artifact 12 • During this time, the Soviet economy had serious problems, most notably a declining rate of economic growth and an inadequate peasant-produced grain supply. Later, inflation and huge shortages, especially of food and raw industrial materials, began to plague the country. By the beginning of 1928, rationing was necessary as agricultural production and procurement failed to meet demand. • Atkins, William Arthur. "Forced Labor: USSR. " St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Ed. Neil Schlager. Vol. 1. Detroit: St. James Press, 2004. 325329. World History in Context. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. • • Website Title: » The Collapse of the Soviet Union to • Article Title: Return The Anthropik Exhibit Network • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014

Artifact 13 During the early years of Soviet rule, revolutionary politics did not seem to preclude the advancement of nontraditional art forms, such as Constructivism, Cubism, and Impressionism. Some members of the Communist Party, however, objected to these art forms, labeling them "decadent" and "bourgeois. " At the congress in 1934, it was decreed that the only permitted style of artistic expression in the Soviet Union would be a new art form known as Socialist Realism, a style of realistic art that was to become the dominant art form in not only the Soviet Union, but in other communist countries, as well. . • "The Soviet Union Bans Abstract Art, 1922 -1934. " Historic World Events. Detroit: Gale, 2014. World History in • Website Title: Uof. C Performance to • Article Title: Return 5. Stalin, Socialist Exhibit Realism, and Heart Attack • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014

Artifact 14 Education in the Soviet Union was organized in a highly centralized government-run system. The Soviet Union recognized that the foundation of their system depended upon complete dedication of the people to the state through education in the broad fields of engineering, the natural sciences, the life sciences, and social sciences, along with basic education. • Website Title: Wikipedia • Article Title: Education in the Soviet Union • Publisher: Wikimedia Foundation • Electronically Published: April 23, 2014 • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014 • Website Title: Delightful Auction Piece, Institute of Russian Realist Art, […] • Article Title: Delightful Auction Piece, Institute Return of Russian Realist Art, […] to • Date Accessed: April. Exhibit 24, 2014

Artifact 15 Soviet Union was the first nation to launch an artificial satellite. Its name was Sputnik 1. The world's first artificial satellite was launched in October 4, 1957. The event is considered to be the starting point of the Space Age. The invention made it possible to identify the density of the atmospheric layer by estimating the orbital changes of the satellite. *Both the picture and the information have the same citation • Website Title: - Technology • Article Title: Top 10 Inventions Return to Made in USSR Exhibit • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014

Artifact 16 Besides establishing fees, privileges, and other benefits for writers, Socialist Realism maintained institutes for training young writers, provided vacation houses and resorts for its members, and acted as a liaison between the party and its own ranks. It also had the power to reprimand even punish writers who failed to follow its artistic mandates. • Website Title: Encyclopedia Britannica Online • Article Title: Writers' Union of the U. S. S. R. • Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica • Date Accessed: April 24, 2014 • Author: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica • Website Title: "A History of Folk Music in English Canada" by Gary Cristall[…] • Article Title: "A History of Folk Music in Return to English Canada" by Gary Cristall[…] • Date Accessed: April. Exhibit 24, 2014