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Week Thirteen
--Socialist Realism

Links:

Socialist Realist Painting: Workers and Peasants

Socialist Realist Painting: Leaders

Gallery with Socialist Realist Paintings

Maxim Gorky

Government Attacks on Writers

The Stalin Skyscrapers of Moscow

Statues of Lenin

Worker and Peasant

Optional:

More Socialist Realist Painting (Seven Pages)

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--The Great Patriotic War

Links:

The Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact ("Treaty of Nonagression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics")

Secret Protocol to the Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact (In which Poland, the Baltic States, and Bessarabia are divided)

The Soviet Union in WWII (Grolier.com)

The Siege of Leningrad

The Battle of Stalingrad (Links to Photos and Information.  Look at some of the photos.  The text links are optional.)

Soviet Women as Pilots in WWII

Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetery (Mass Graves of the Victims of the Leningrad Siege)

The Yalta Conference

Stalin's VE Day Speech

The "Mamaev Kurgan" War Memorial Complex in Volgograd

Optional:

Pobediteli ("The Victors")  A great multimedia site.  Highly recommended!

Ukraine during WWII

Stalin's speech to the Soviet People

Protocol of the Yalta Conference

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