Social Studies

Sponsor - Ryan Edmonds

The Social Studies Contest consists of 45 objective questions and an essay.
Students are expected to master primary reading selections, as well as specific documents, and to be familiar with general knowledge social studies concepts and terms.

Each year, the contest focuses on a different topic area and a reading list is provided by UIL.

2017-2018 Topic: In the Shadow of the Red Bear: Russia and the former Soviet Union

Primary Reading Selection: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, by David Remnick

Supplemental Reading Material
Country Profiles
(from the CIA’s The World Factbook and BBC News Country Profiles)

• Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Russia
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan

LINKS
https://www.britannica.com
https://www.infoplease.com/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/profileguide.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17858981
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union

2017-2018
SOCIAL STUDIES TENTATIVE TERM LIST
People
Valdas Adamkus
Ilham Aliyev
Yuri Andropov
Almazbek Atambayev
Lavrentii Beria
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikolai Bukharin
Konstantin Chernenko
Viktor Chernomydrin
Fedor Dostoevskii
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Yegor Gaidar
Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Gorbachev
Maxim Gorky
Islam A. Karimov
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Nikita Khrushchev
Sergei Kirov
Lavr Kornilov
Aleksei Kosygin
Vladimir Kruchov
Vladimir Lenin
Egor Ligachev
Alexander Litvinenko
Alyaksandr Lukashenka
Georgii Malenkov
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Aslan Maskhadov
Viacheslav Molotov
Vladimir Nabokov
Nursultan A. Nazarbayev
Boris Nemtsov
Saparmurat Niyazov
George Orwell
Boris Pasternak
Petro Poroshenko
Boris Pugo
Alexander. Pushkin
Vladimir Putin
Imomali Rakhmonov
Aleksei Rykov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Serzh Sarkisyan
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Josef Stalin
Petr Stolypin
Laimdota Straujuma
L. Trotsky
Vladimir Voronin
Lech Walesa
Aleksandr Yakovlev
Gennadii Yanaev
Viktor Yanukovich
Boris Yeltsin
Andrei Zhdanov
Grigorii Zinoviev

General Terms
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion of)
Agitprop
Anti-cosmopolitanism campaign
Anti-semitism
August coup (1991)
apparatchik
Baltic Republics
Basmachi Rebellion
Berlin Wall
Bolshevik Party
bourgeoisie
Brest-Litovsk
Chechen War
Cyrillic
Second Chechen War
Chernobyl
Cold War
Collectivization
Comintern
Commissar
communism
Communist Manifesto
Communist Party
Comrade
Congress of People’s Deputies
Coup d’etat
Cossacks
Crimea
Cuban Missile Crisis
Czar bomb
Soviet Constitution
Crimean Tartars
Dacha
Defect
De-stalinization
Dissent/Dissenter
Doctor’s plot
Doctor Zhivago
Duma
Five-year plans
“Former people”
General secretary
Genoa Conference
Glasnost
Gorky Park
Great Patriotic War
Gulag
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
Indigenization
Industrialization
Intelligentsia
KAL flight 007
Katyn Forest massacre
Karakum Canal
KGB
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
Komosol
Kremlin
Kulaks
Marxism
Memorial Society
Mensheviks
Molotov-Rippentrop Pact
Mujahidin
New Economic Policy
NKVD
Nomenklatura
October Revolution
Oligarchs
Perestroika
Personality cult
Petrograd Soviet
Pioneer Organization
Pogroms
Politburo
Pravda
Proletariat (and dictatorship of)
Propaganda
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Purge
The Great Purge
Red Army
Red Terror
rehabilitation
RSFSR
Russian Orthodox
Russian Revolution
Russification
Samizdat
Scissors Crisis
September coup (1993)
Serf
Siberia
Solidarity
Sputnik
Stalingrad
Supreme Soviet
Tartars
Thaw
Totalitarianism
Twentieth Party Congress (1956)
U.S.S.R
Volga
Volga Germans
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Uprising
White Russians (Army)
Zionism