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Welcome to 2017-2018 Social Studies UIL

 This is the UIL page describing the competition:     www.uiltexas.org/academics/academic-contests/social-studies
TOPIC
In the Shadow of the Red Bear: Russia and the former Soviet Union
PRIMARY READING SELECTION
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, by David Remnick
SUPPLEMENTAL READING MATERIAL
Country Profiles (from the CIA’s The World Factbook and BBC News Country Profiles)
Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Estonia • Georgia • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Latvia • Lithuania • Moldova • Russia • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Ukraine • Uzbekistan
LINKS
https://www.britannica.com https://www.infoplease.com/ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/profileguide.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17858981 http://soviethistory.msu.edu/ http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union
PEOPLE
Valdas Adamkus
Ilham Aliyev
Hafizullah Amin
Yuri Andropov
Anna Akhmatova
Almazbek Atambayev
Lavrentiy Beria
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikolai Bukharin
​Konstantin Chernenko
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Fedor Dostoevskii
Alexander Dubcek
Yuri Gagarin
Yegor Gaidar
Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Gorbachev
Maxim Gorky
Vladimir Gusinsky
Islam A. Karimov
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Nikita Khrushchev
Sergei Kirov
Lavr Kornilov
Aleksei Kosygin
Vladimir Kryuchkov
Vladimir Lenin
Egor Ligachev
Alexander Litvinenko
Alyaksandr Lukashenka
Georgii Malenkov
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Aslan Maskhadov
Viacheslav Molotov
Vladimir Nabokov
Nursultan A. Nazarbayev
Boris Nemtsov
Saparmurat Niyazov
George Orwell
Boris Pasternak
Petro Poroshenko
Boris Pugo
Alexander Pushkin
Vladimir Putin
Emomali Rakhmonov
Aleksei Rykov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Serzh Sargsyan
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Josef Stalin
Petr Stolypin
Laimdota Straujuma
Valentina Tereshkova
Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Voronin
Lech Walesa
Aleksandr Yakovlev
Gennadii Yanaev
Viktor Yanukovych
Boris Yeltsin
Andrei Zhdanov
Grigorii Zinoviev 
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Elements of the Contest
The Social Studies Contest consists of 45 objective questions and an essay. Students are expected to master primary reading selections, as well as specific documents, and to be familiar with general-knowledge social studies concepts and terms. Each year, the contest focuses on a different topic area and a reading list that is provided by UIL.
GENERAL TERMS
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion of)
Agitprop
Anti-cosmopolitanism campaign
Anti-semitism
August coup (1991)
apparatchik
Baltic Republics
Basmachi Rebellion
Battle of Stalingrad
Berlin Wall
Black Sea
Bolshevik Party
bourgeoisie
Brest-Litovsk
Brezhnev Doctrine
Caspian Sea
Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Chernobyl
Cold War
Collectivization
Comintern
Commissar
Commonwealth of Independent States
communism
Communist Manifesto
Communist Party
Comrade
Congress of People’s Deputies
Coup d’etat
Cossacks
Crimea
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cyrillic
Czar bomb
Soviet Constitution
Crimean Tatars
Dacha
Dagestan
Danilov Monastery
Defect
De-stalinization
Dissent/Dissenter
Dnieper River
Doctor’s plot
Doctor Zhivago
Donbass
Donetsk
Don River
Duma
Eurasia
Family Code of 1926
Five-year plans
“Former people”
Gazprom
General secretary
Genoa Conference
Glasnost
Gorky Park
Great Patriotic War
Grozny
Gulag
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
Indigenization
Industrialization
Intelligentsia
Jadids
KAL flight 007
Katyn Forest massacre
Karakum Canal
KGB
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
Kiev
Komosol
Kremlin
Kulaks
Leningrad
Lubyanka
Marxism
Memorial Society
Mensheviks
Molotov-Rippentrop Pact
Moscow
Moscow Trials
Mujahidin
New Economic Policy (NEP)
NKVD
Nomenklatura
October Revolution
oblast
Oligarchs
Orange Revolution
Perestroika
Personality cult
Petrograd Soviet
Pioneer Organization
Pogroms
Polish October
Polish-Soviet War
Politburo
Pravda
Proletariat (and dictatorship of)
Propaganda
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
purge
The Great Purge
Red Army
Red Terror
Refusnik
rehabilitation
RSFSR
Russian Orthodox
Russian Revolution
Russification
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Samizdat
Scissors Crisis
September coup (1993)
Serf
Siberia
Siege of Leningrad
Solidarity
spiritual directorates
Sputnik
Stalingrad
Supreme Soviet
Tatarstan
Thaw
Totalitarianism
Twentieth Party Congress (1956)
U.S.S.R
Union of Writers
Ural Mountains
Volga River
Volga Germans
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Uprising
White Russians (Army)
Yukos
zhenotdel
​Zionism