In this global studies learning exercise, students read the noted pages in their textbooks and then respond to 4 short answer questions about World War I and Russian history.

Students are instructed using a cross curricular type of lesson. The time period that they focus upon is the founding of the Soviet Union as a superpower in the world after WWII. The rise of communism is also taken into consideration.

An overview of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

This site from the Library of Congress is a brief description of the history of the secret police in the Soviet Union. Its origins are found during the time of the revolution.