Here is a thorough Russian history instructional activity. In it, learners read a two-page selection about the Great Terror and Stalin. They respond to four short answer questions based on the selection.

High schoolers examine the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917. They watch and discuss a video, take notes and answer video discussion questions, and read and evaluate newspaper articles about how Lenin and Stalin are viewed today in...

This was the constitution used by Stalin in the USSR.

This site from the Library of Congress discusses the progress of World War II, and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.

Have you ever wondered what came before Photoshop? After the First World War, artists in Germany and the Soviet Union began to experiment with photomontage, the process of making a composite image by juxtaposing or mounting two or more...

A wonderful, information-packed encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on the Molotov-Ribbentrop (Nazi-German) pact presents a good summary of the events that led up to the signing of the pact. There is also a link to the text of the pact.

Article examining the events surrounding the famine that Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union forced causing seven million deaths.