Unit+2.2+Communist+Russia

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Big Idea: Power

Enduring Understandings:
 * Power is often opportunistic
 * Power can free, power can confine

Essential Questions:
 * What makes one powerful?
 * Can one achieve all his dreams with power?
 * Does power bring with it freedom or does power entrap?

Learning Objectives from this sub-chapter:
 * 1) How did Josef Stalin rise as leader of the Soviet Union in the 1920s?
 * 2) How did he establish himself as SOLE leader of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s?
 * 3) What impact did his rule have on the people of the Soviet Union?