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World History Topic 10: Authoritarian States

February 17, 2017

“May I choose Margaret Thatcher as an authoritarian leader?” This came from one of my cheekier students. After we finished units on Lenin and Stalin, I thought I would try an experiment and allow students to choose their own authoritarian regimes. I was...

December 30: the death of Rasputin and the beginning of the Russian Revolution

January 20, 2017

December 30th is the centennial of the death of Rasputin. This is the story that you are most likely to remember from Russian history; years from now you will be able to recount to your friends the death scene in minute detail, and you will be able to provide all of...

Teaching Russia, killing 3 Birds with One Stone and Auld Lang Syne

January 13, 2017

My last post for the student blog that I finished yesterday, in honor of the centennial of the murder of Rasputin led me to re-examine how to include the Russian Revolutions in the curriculum. When the World History Topics were 20th century World History Topics, and...

Whither the Prescribed Subjects? Next month’s exams are the end of an era

November 2, 2016

We are now one month out from the final IB exams of the session that began with the exams in 2010. On 8 November, the final set of Paper 1s will be given, and after that, these subjects will be put to rest. The peacemaking, peacekeeping material is easily integrated...

Bulgaria enters the war, October 1915

October 26, 2016

Nearly 102 years ago, the Bulgarians entered the Great War on the side of the Central Powers. While it began the 20th century as a client state of Russia it had become increasingly alienated from its patron. As a member of the Balkan League it found itself in an...

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