Slides for September 9 and 11
The Versailles Settlement and the Failed Peace
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Russian soldiers demand peace during February Revolution
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Provisional forces disperse a demonstration in Saint Petersburg
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The Russian cruiser Aurora
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The ruins of the Berlin Palace where Liebknecht announced a socialist
republic
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The Staatsratsgebäude (State Council Building) which incorporated
Portal IV, or the Liebknecht Portal
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The Reichstag - the German Imperial Parliament building
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Lloyd George (UK), Vittorio Orlando (IT), Georges Clemenceau (FR), and
Woodrow Wilson (US), during the Versailles Conference
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Declaration of the Irish Republic
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Ethnic groups in Hungary from the 1880 census
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The planned division of the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Severs
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Kemal Attatürk introduces the Latin alphabet to Turkey
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The Russian Revolution
Excerpt from Vladimir
Lenin's What is to be Done?
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Trotsky, Lenin and Kaminev
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Lenin and Stalin meeting
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Propaganda poster extolling Lenin
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The disappearing Trotsky. Now you see him . . .
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. . . now you don't
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Soviet propaganda encouraging farmers to join collective farms.
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Map of population decline during Ukranian famine.
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Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square
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Lenin's body enbalmed in the mausoleum
(no larger size available)
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Beloved Stalin - Great fortune of the nation!
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Roses for Stalin and the cult of personality
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Magnitogorsk in the 1930s - the name rougly translates to "Magnetic
Mountain" and was created for its proximity to iron ore.
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Soviet popaganda denouncing alleged economic sabatoge
(no larger size available)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - author of the Gulag Archipelago
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All images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted and are considered
to be in the public domain and, if copyrighted, eligible for display under fair
use criteria.
The photos of the Berlin palace ruins, the Staatsratsgebäude, and the
Reichstag are by the author.
The picture of the actual body of Lenin is from russiablog.org.
The photo of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is from
gulaghistory.org, run by the Center for New
Media and History at George Mason University.