Vocabulary: prudent, revitalized, vexed, temperamental, malicious, impoverished, thwarted, kulak, gulag, Duma, collectivization, Bolshevik, Menshevik, 

Textbook Reading:

Topic 8.3 (503-508)

Historical Perspective: None

Assigned Reading: None

Assigned Podcast:

Guiding Questions for Podcast

1. Prof. Rappaport claims that the execution of the Romanov family was murder – agree or disagree.

2. Why did Bolsheviks not “announce” the deaths of the Romanov family?

3. Explain Prof. Rappaport’s differing opinion on George V then with other historical theories – do you agree?

4. If George V would have been able to bring them back what might have been public opinion in England of that?

5. Was there a secret plan to bring them back?

History Extra: “The Murder of the Romanov’s”