Stalin DBQ

DBQ What does that mean?

DBQ 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 is “real” information?

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

DBQ 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

 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.

 Document A  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.  Document B  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.

 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

 Now you must providence as much evidence from the documents for each of the categories  Category 1: They are both healthy  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 3: They are both affordable  Evidence: Because they cost less than $1 (Doc A)  Evidence: (More evidence from sources)

 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.

 Nothing………………….so……………

 Read all the documents provided to you by your teacher.  Answer any questions that are on the documents.

 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

 Labor camps  Wealthy farmers

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

 Purges: Arrest of a massive amount of people who supposedly were a threat to the Communist system.  Reality People often were arrested for no reason whatsoever!!! 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.

1. List 3 ways Stalin’s USSR and Nicholas II czarist Russia were similar. 2. List 3 ways Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Germany were similar.

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).

Now put all your information into a paragraph.