Stalin DBQ Please take a packet out of

Stalin DBQ • Please take a packet out of your blue tub and silent read the first page. Underline anything you find interesting!!! • We will discuss.

DBQ What does that mean?

Document Based Questions Documents of all sorts can be used to collect “real” information when you need to answer a historical question or write a report. What DBQ is “real” information?

Primary sources: Diaries from the event Government records Interviews Poems by serfs A sculpture or piece of on a collective farm Photographs Treaties Maps DBQ artwork by a peasant

Secondary sources: An article about a piece of art Book on The Holocaust An essay about collective farms A biography of a Stalin Newspaper article DBQ

STARTING A DBQ If we were writing a DBQ, the first thing we would do is read all of our primary and secondary source documents. Let’s read all our documents.

“OFFICIAL” DOCUMENTS Document A Document B Fruits are a type of food group. Apples and bananas are two types of fruits. They are great to eat for a snack! Both fruits are healthy and usually cost less than $1. Some fruits are big and some fruits are small. Apples and bananas are the perfect size because they are easy to carry in your lunchbox.

STARTING A DBQ Now we need to look at our DBQ question. What are the similarities between apples and bananas? Next create 3 categories to answer the question. Category 1: They are both healthy Category 2: They are easy to carry Category 3: They are both affordable

EVIDENCE Now you must providence as much evidence from the documents for each of the categories Category Evidence: Because they both contain vitamins (Doc A) Evidence: (More evidence from sources) Category 2: They are easy to carry Evidence: Because they both fit in a lunchbox (Doc B) Evidence: (More evidence from sources) Category 1: They are both healthy 3: They are both affordable Evidence: Because they cost less than $1 (Doc A) Evidence: (More evidence from sources)

REQUIREMENT 2 Now put all your categories, evidence and documents used into a paragraph. Apples and bananas have similarities. Both are healthy snacks because “they contain vitamins” (Doc A). They are also easy to carry because they “fit in your lunchbox “(Doc B). Lastly, they are “affordable because apples and bananas normally cost less than one dollar” (Doc A). Apples and bananas are alike in many ways.

WHAT DO BANANAS AND APPLES HAVE TO DO WITH SOCIAL STUDIES? Nothing…………………. so……………

LET’S TRY IT WITH OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Read all the documents provided to you by your teacher. Answer any questions that are on the documents.

ROY MEDVEDEV

BIOGRAPHY Born in Tbilisa, Georgia (USSR) His father was arrested by Stalin in 1938 and died in a labor camp. Roy dared to speak out against Stalin. Wrote Let History Judge on “Stalinism” in 1969 Kicked out of the Communist Party

GULAGS AND KULAKS Labor camps Wealthy farmers

GULAGS Similar to Hitler’s labor camps Hard labor in horrible working conditions Two million people die here by end of WWII

WE CALL THIS THE GREAT TERROR Purges: Reality People often were arrested for no reason whatsoever!!! Arrest of a massive amount of people who supposedly were a threat to the Communist system. Stalin even had high ranking officers of his own administration arrested.

Anyone arrested faced harsh interrogation and then was either executed or sentenced indefinitely to labor camps. Have you ever been late to work? In the Stalin era, a person who arrived late to work three times could be sent to the Gulag for three years. Have you ever told a joke about a government official? In the Stalin era, many were sent to the Gulag for up to 25 years for telling an innocent joke about a Communist Party official. If your family was starving, would you take a few potatoes left in a field after harvest? In the Stalin era, a person could be sent to the Gulag for up to ten years for such petty theft. END OF STORY?

CREATING YOUR CATEGORIES 1. What are 3 ways Stalin’s USSR and Nicholas II czarist Russia were similar? (list them) 2. What are 3 ways Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Germany were similar? (list them)

EVIDENCE FOR EACH CATEGORY Choose either #1 (Stalin/Czar Nicholas II) OR #2 (Stalin/Hitler) Now provide evidence from your documents to support each of your categories. - “Evidence from source” (Doc).

WRITING A PARAGRAPH Now put all your information into a paragraph.