Welcome to 2017-2018 Social Studies UIL
This is the UIL page describing the competition: www.uiltexas.org/academics/academic-contests/social-studies
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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 |