The Russian Revolution…a Children’s Story?
Your Task:
Task: Create a children’s book/short story about the Russian Revolution focusing on the key events and
people that helped to create the first communist state in the world. The plot of your story should focus around
the events leading to the Revolution in Russia, and what Russia was like under Stalin’s rule. You can make the
plot of your story focus on one more than the other, or both can have equal representation. Your children’s
book/short story must include the following:
• The causes of the revolution in Russia (your anatomy of a revolution
chart should be utilized for this!!!) Your book should contain at least 3
of causes of the revolution
• Key people:
1. Czar Nicholas II
2. Czarina Alexandria (and the Czar’s family if you would
like)
3. Rasputin
4. Vladimir Lenin
5. Leon Trotsky
6. Josef Stalin
7. the Reds and the Whites
• Events:
Events * must be included; YOU need to choose at least 4 other events
1. The causes leading to the two Revolutions in Russia
Russia *
2. The abdication of the last czar of Russia
3. The February and November revolutions (brief explanation of what
happened during each of the two revolutions)
4. The civil war (Reds vs. Whites)
5. The establishment of the Soviet Union as a communist state under
Lenin
Lenin
6. The NEP—
NEP—Lenin’s brief move towards capitalism
7. The Power struggle after Lenin dies (who will succeed?)
8. Stalin’s control of the Soviet Union –what was life like in a
totalitarian state? (collectivization, the FiveFive-Year plans, the Great
Purge, The Terror, mass killings, etc.) *
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Key Terms that need to be used correctly and defined in the children’s story:
1. communism
2. socialism
3. Marxism
4. Bolsheviks
5. NEP
6. totalitarian state
7. collectives
8. kulaks
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A Creative title for your book
Color, pictures, effort, creativity
Helpful Hints for your project:
1. Focus on your strengths; if you are good at drawing,
coloring, organizing information, etc. than be sure to utilize
your strengths!!!
2. Use the front as a checklist; as you add something to your
story, check it off!!!
3. Stay away from violent images and violent language!!! This
is a children’s book! You can use symbols or other ways of
writing about events (ie. instead of someone being killed,
you can write that they went away…)
4. Keep up with your work: Do not take time off in class—
excuses such as I forgot all of my work will not fly! We will
have a lunch or after school conference in order to make
up for lost class time.
5. Be creative and have fun!!! There is not only one way to do
this project!!! Focus on your personality.
6. KNOW YOUR INFORMATION!!! If you do not
understand it, how are your readers going to understand it?
More importantly, I will notice this when I grade your
product…
Sources you can and should utilize:
• Anatomy of a Revolution Chart
• Textbook, Chapter 15
• Notes: The Russian Revolution
• Video Images & Notes: StalinStalin-Man of Steel
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