CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT / CLASSROOM DEBATES

ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING RUSSIAN AND SOVIET STUDIES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL (currently unavailable)

Robert A. Cole and Janet G. Vaillant, Social Science Education Consortium, Boulder, CO, 1990

THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION: U.S. RUSSIAN RELATIONS TEN YEARS LATER : TEACHER'S GUIDE

Close Up Foundation, Alexandria, VA,June 1999

COLLAPSE OF A MULTINATIONAL STATE: THE CASE OF YUGOSLAVIA

Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), 1994

A Curriculum Unit for History and Social Studies for Grades 9 through Community College

THE COLLECTIVE LEGACY: A TEACHERS GUIDE TO EASTERN EUROPE

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies / Stanford Program for International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1992

COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM  (Grades 6-12)

This social studies unit on Communism and Socialism by Sunburst Visual Media includes a teachers guide, a DVD, and a VHS tape (both by Teacher's Video Company).  These material seek to explain the concepts of communism and socialism and how they influenced the world we live in.  Video and DVD are approx 38 minutes long.

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: EASTERN EUROPE

J. Weston Walch & Kathy Sammis; J. Weston Walch, Publisher, Portland, ME, 1991

A brief touch on the countries of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union. Discussion questions and Maps included

THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: CONSIDERING ITS PLACE IN COLD WAR HISTORY

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies

Brown University, Providence, RI, June 2001

CULTURAL CONFLICTS: CASE STUDIES IN A WORLD OF CHANGE

Edward Lerner; J. Weston Walch Publisher, Portland, ME,1994

Case studies of change from all over the world including Russia and the Comminwealth of Independent States

DECISION MAKING AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES: A CURRICULUM UNIT FOR GRADES 9-12

Stanford Program on International and Cross-cultural Education, 1992

A teaching unit covering the basics of the European Union

EASTERN EUROPE: A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR TEACHERS

Compiled by Richard Frucht & Elizabeth Talbot; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1991 & 1992 (revised)

EASTERN EUROPE: CAPTIVE LANDS; Gr. 9-12

Stanford Progam on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1992

A Curriculum Unit for History and Social Studies

EASTERN EUROPE: THE COLLECTIVE LEGACY; GR. 9-12

Stanford Progam on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1992

A Curriculum Unit for History and Social Studies

EASTERN EUROPE: DISSIDENCE CENSORED; Gr. 9-12

Stanford Progam on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1992

A Curriculum Unit for History and Social Studies

EASTERN EUROPE: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION; Gr. 9-12

Stanford Progam on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1992

A Curriculum Unit for History and Social Studies

EASTERN EUROPE AND RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE OLD ALLIANCE

Indiana University, Russian and East European Institute; 1992

Collections of academic articles concerning the countries of Eastern Europe and their relations with each other

FACING THE FUTURE: PEOPLE AND THE PLANET

John Goekler; Facing the Future, 1999

A Guide to Population Issues for Students and Teachers

FREE TO CHOOSE: A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO REVOLUTION AND REFORM IN EASTERN EUROPE; GRADES 9-12

Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies & Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education.

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. POLICY

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies

Brown University, Providence, RI, copyright April 1992 (revised Feb. 1998)

THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: A POLISH-AMERICAN MODEL

Social  Studies Development Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1983

INSIDE THE KREMLIN:  SOVIET AND RUSSIAN LEADERS FORM LENIN TO PUTIN

This includes two DVD's containing six lectures on devoted to Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin.  This also includes a book full of lesson outlines, handouts and other usefull material.  This material is produced by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) at the Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

IRAQ AFTER WAR: THE CHALLENGE OF SECURING THE PEACE / NORTH KOREA AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Teaching with the News, The Choices Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2003

KEEPING THE PEACE IN AN AGE OF CONFLICT: DEBATING THE U.S. ROLE

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies

Brown University, Providence, RI, copyright April 1994 (revised Dec. 1997)

LIVING IN RUSSIA TODAY (Lesson Guide, Resource Guide, Video)

The Idea Bank, 1139 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA

MAJOR CONCEPTS / EVENTS IN UNITED STATES - SOVIET UNION RELATIONS: FROM THE ORIGINS TO RECOGNITION

International Security and Arms Control, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, 1988

MANAGING WORLD CONFLICT: A Resource Unit for High Schools

United States Institue of Peace, Washington, DC

MATERIALS FOR RUSSIAN ELECTIONS: 1999 DUMA ELECTIONS, 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONRussian and East European Center, University of Illinois,  Information from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

PERSPECTIVES ON PEACE: A RESOURCE FOR TEACHING PEACE AND SECURITY ISSUES

Close Up Foundation, 1990

POLAND: A CULTURAL RESOURCE GUIDE

Don McKay & Kathy Mitter; Milliken Publishing Company, St. Louis, MO, 1994

Part of "Our Global Village" series

POLISHING THE MIRROR: A CURRICULUM UNIT ON CENTRAL AND INNER EURASIA

Vika Gardner and R.T. Steponaitis; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000

RESOURCES FOR K-12 TEACHERS: CZECH REPUBLIC, ESTONIA, UZBEKISTAN & CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Compiled by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

RUSSIA: A CULTURAL RESOURCE GUIDE

Susan J. Williams & Kathy Mitter; Milliken Publishing Company, St. Louis, MO, 1993

Part of "Our Global Village" series

RUSSIA: A LITERATURE BASED MULTI-CULTURAL UNIT

Betsy Franco & Jo Supancich; Even-Moor Corp, Monterey, CA, 1993

Unit for grades 1-3

RUSSIA TO THE REVOLUTION: Mongols to Moscow, Cossacks to Kiev

Susan Finney, Patricia Kindle; Good Apple , Inc. 1987

Independent Learning Unit for Grades 4-8

RUSSIA TODAY

Newsweek Education Program: Newsource, New York, NY, 1999

Three units on Russia's ransformation from communism to democracy

RUSSIA'S UNCERTAIN TRANSITION: CHALLENGES FOR U.S. POLICY

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies

Brown University, Providence, RI, copyright Sept. 2005

THE RUSSIAN REVOULUTION

Choices for the 21st Century Ecucaiton Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies Brown University, Providence, RI, copyright February 2005

SHORT STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

The American Forum, Inc. and International Cultural Exchange, 1988

A guide for language arts and social studies teachers

SPOTLIGHT ON INNER ASIA: THE BIZARRE BAZAAR (Experimental Draft)

Teacher and Student Resource Guide; The American Forum for Global Education, 2000

TEACHING ABOUT THE SOVIET SUCCESSOR STATES: A TEACHERS GUIDE AND RESOURCE FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Adrian Chan; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

TEACHING RUSSIAN STUDIES: GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, CULTURE, ART

Patricia Winpenny, Katherine Weeks Cadwell, with Louise Cadwell, Center for Teaching International Relations, University of Denver, CO, 2004.  (We also have the 1996 edition)

U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY IN AN UNSETTLED WORLD (see: Global Environmental Problems)

Choices for the 21st Century Education Project; A program of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International StudiesBrown University, Providence, RI, copyright Oct. 1992 (revised Aug. 1997)

U.S. ROLE IN A CHANGING WORLD

Choices for the 21st Century Ecucation Program ,Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Providence, RI, Copyright February 2004.

USING GLOBAL STUDIES IN THE CLASSROOM

The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., Sluice Dock, Guilford, CT, 1990

General strategies, teaching and learning models, objective testing materials, transparency masters for regional maps, and instructional methods for integrating The Global Studies in your Classroom program.

WORLD RELIGIONS: STUDY GUIDECambridge Educational, Charleston, WV

A study guide that touches briefly on major religions from around the world.

GENERAL

CHANNELS

Holt Ruffin & Joan McCarter; Center for Civil Society International, Seattle, WA, 1995

A Guide to Third Sector Projects, Organizations and Work Opportunities in the New Independent States

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR THE NIS

Richard Upjohn; Center for Civil Society International, Seattle, WA, 1995

THE POST-SOVIET HANDBOOK: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources in the Newly Independent States

M. Holt Ruffin, Joan McCarter, Richard Upjohn; Center for Civil Society International / University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1996

A handbook of orgainzations in the former USSR.  Contact infromation is available for these organizations is given.

THE ROMYR REPORT

Winter 2000 vol.2, No. 2(6)

A Report of the Ukrainian Presidential Elections and other news from the Ukraine.

SOVIET UNION IN MAPS

George Philip & Son Limited, London, 1972

STATE OF THE WORLD 1990: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1990.

A text discussing the ability to create and sustain life on the Earth.

WORLD WAR ONE AND ITS AFTERMATH  (DVD)

Discovery Channel School - Social Studies (Grades 6-12)

This DVD includes a Video Index, Curriculum units, Standards Link, and Teacher Resources

GEOGRAPHY

ATLAS OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Rand McNally and Company, 2001

An atlas of the world

HAMMOND NEW CONTEMPORARY WORLD ATLAS: New Census Edition.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1977

Atlas of the World and the United States

MAPPING RUSSIA: Geographic and Cultural Diversity.

Arthur Khachikian, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Stanford, CA, 2001

A program designed to introduce students to the geographic and cultural diversity of the peoples and territory of the Russian Federation.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS 1994: GEOGRAPHY FOR LIFE

National Geographic Research and Exploration, Washington, DC, 1994

This volume contains material for K-12 students. 

THE NYSTROM DESK ATLAS

Nystrom, Chicago, IL ,1994

An atlas of the world

THE SOVIET UNION: A Systematic Geography

ed. Leslie Symons; Barnes and Nobel Books, Totowa, NJ, 1983

This volume provides an account of the basic aspects of the physical, economic, adn human geography of hte USSR, and it deals in detail with a number of topics that are not usually covered adequatly in textbooks.

WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Building a Global Perspecive (Student Textbook and Teacher's Edition)

Thomas J. Baerwald & Celeste Fraser; Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000

Geography textbook covering geographic principles and geographic areas of the world

HISTORY

FROM RUSSIA TO USSR:  A Narrative and Documentary History

Janet G. Vaillant & John Richards II;  Independent School Press, Inc.,Wellesley Hills, MA, 1985

There is a second edition of this published in 1993.  The title for this edition is:  "From Russia to USSR and Beyond", published by theLongman Publishing Group.

GLOBAL STUDIES: Russia, the Eurasian Republics, and Central / Eastern Europe, Eighth Edition

Minton F. Goldman; Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Sluice Dock, CT, 2001

This volume includes history and events up through the fall of communism and the 1990's.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Paul Robert Magocsi; University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2002

Incorporates the enormous political changes that have taken place since 1989 as well as the history of Central Europe from 400 c.e.

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD (including 180 questions for World History booklet)
Rand McNally & Co., Skokie, IL , 2001 printing (1997 copyright)

A history of the peoples of the world through maps.

LESSONS FROM HISTORY: Essential Understandings and Historical Perspectives Students Should Acquire

eds. Charlotte Crabtree, Gary B. Nash, Paul Gagnon, Scott Waugh; National Center for History in the Schools, Los Angeles CA, 1992This volume mainly streesses the History of the United States.  It includes world history and a couple theoretical chapters discussing the reasons why history sould be studied and what to teach.  This is a teachers guide.

THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES OF EURASIA: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics

Stephen K. Batalden & Sandra L. Batalden, The Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1993

This volume covers the all the new states of the USSR except the Baltics.  It covers a wide range of topics such as history and economics for the former Soviet Republics.

THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES OF EURASIA: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, 2nd Edition

Stephen K. Batalden & Sandra L. Batalden, The Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1997

This volume covers the all the new states of the USSR except the Baltics.  It covers a wide range of topics such as history and economics for the former Soviet Republics.

ONE THOUSAND YEARS: STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE USSR, 988-1988

J. Martin Bailey; Frienship Press, New York, NY, 1987

A history of Christianity in Russia

THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF RUSSIA

John Channon with Robert Hudson; The Penguin Group, New York, NY, 1996

Maps, Text, and images follow Russian history from earliest times to the present day.

THE ROUTLEDGE ATLAS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY, 3rd Edition

Martin Gilbert; Routledge, London, 2002

WIth use of maps - a survey of Russian history from earliest times to present day.

RUSSIA

Marilyn Chase; Milliken Publishing Co, St. Louis MO, 1974This volume is a teachers guide dealing with major events in Russian history.  Included are 12 full color transparencies and duplicatingpages.

RUSSIA, THEN AND NOW

Phyllis A. Arnold and David J. Rees; Arnold Publishing Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada, 1993

A history of Russia during the 20th Century.  It has many pictures, maps, illustrations, etc. 

THE SOVIET UNION

Phyllis Arnold, Arnold  Publishing Ltd., Edmonton, AB, 1986

A historical atlas of the Soviet Union.  This text also covers medeival Russian and the Russian Empire.

STUDYING RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY

Abraham Ascher, ed.; Social Science Education Consortium, Inc.; 1987

A concise history of Russia divided into two parts.  Part 1: Essays on Themes in Russian and Soviet History; Part 2: Bibliographical Essays.  Written by some of the biggest names in Russian history.

TREASURES OF THE CZARS FROM THE MOSCOW KREMLIN MUSEUMS: An Educational Guide and Supplement for Russian Cultural

Studies

Kansas International Museum, Inc.; 1995

This is a history centered on Russian culture.  Specifically, it focuses on the culture and treasures of the Czars.

LANGUAGE

IN SEARCH OF ORLOVSKY:  A Video Mystery

Leonid B. Shamshin, Zita D. Dabars, Ellina Yu. Sosenko, American Councils of Teachers of Russian, 1997

A teaching resource manual to help learn Russian.  We also have the film that goes with this.

LIVE FROM MOSCOW: RUSSIAN STAGE ONE

Dan E. Davidson, Kira S. Gor & Maria D. Lekic; American Councils of Teachers of Russian, 1996

Textbook and Workbook for stage one Russian.  We also have the film that goes with this.

MINI RUS: A Starter Course in Russian (Workbook and Textbook)

Alla A. Akishina, American Councils of Teachers of Russian, 1996

Workbook and textbook designed to help the beginning student of the Russian language

PASSPORT TO THE WORLD: Learning to Communicate in a Foreign Language

eds. Betty Lou Leaver, Inna Dubinsky, & Melina Champine, LARC Press, San Diego, CA, 1999

A volume dedicated to language learning strategy.  May be used for all languages.

RUSSIAN FOR EVERYBODY: Teacher's Manual

R. Baker, Russky Yazyk, Moscow, 1984

Almost entirely written in Russian.  Designed to help teachers teach the Russian language.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE: Text-Workbook

Adele Donchenko, EMC Publishing, Saint Paul, MN, 1985

A beginning Text-workbook to learn Russian.

RUSSIAN THEMES: Video Resource Manual

Leonid B. Shamshin, Zita D. Dabars, Ellina Yu. Sosenko, American Councils of Teachers of Russian, 1997

A teaching resource manual to help learn Russian.  We also have the film that goes with this.

STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND TESTING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN RUSSIAN

ed. Rasio Dunatov, Russian and East European Center, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1976

Papers presented at a workshop held in Chicago, May 8, 1976 in conjunction with the Midwest Slavic Conference

MUSIC

COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN SONGS

Gerard L. Ervin (Compiler); Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1975

Small compilation of Russian songs.

A HISTORY OF THE TAMBURA, Vol. 1: The Tambura in Europe -- Its Early Development

Walter W. Kolar, Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Institute of Folk Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973

A HISTORY OF THE TAMBURA, Vol. 2: The Tambura in America

Walter W. Kolar, Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Institute of Folk Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1975

RUSSIAN SONGS

Jerry Silverman (Compiler, Arranger); Oak Publications, New York, NY, 1966

40 contemporary and traditonal songs in Russian and English.  Discriptive notes on the songs, guitar chords including a number of songs arranged in choral parts and with bayan accompaniment.

TAMBURITZA INSTRUCTION, Book 1

Walter W. Kolar, Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Tamburitzan Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1961

TAMBURITZA INSTRUCTION, Book 2

Walter W. Kolar, Duquesne Univeristy Tamburitzans, Tamburitzan Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1969

TEXTBOOKS (Text and Teachers Editions)

THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE (Scholastic World Cultures)

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler; Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, 1991

Students textbook and teaching guide for teachers.  A text focused on the each of the former communist countries in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.  History trough the fall of communism.

WORLD CULTURES: A Global Mosaic

Iftikhar Ahmad, Herbert Brodsky, Marylee Susan Crofts, Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis; Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999

A general textbook for studying world cultures.