About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
HOW DID ECONOMIC STAGFLATION LEAD TO THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM UNDER PUTIN AND MARKETS CONTROLLED BY AN OLIGOPOLY?
Objectives:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted secondary source text on the rise of totalitarianism in Russia with emphasis on skill-building necessary for the AP Exam (Analyze, Evidence, Interpretation, Comparison, Causation, Argumentation) and the New York State American History Regents
Citations:
BOOK: Gessen, Masha (2017) The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. New York: Riverhead Books (pgs. 285-309)
BOOK REVIEW: Fukuyama, Francis (2017). In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises
https://nyti.ms/2xP2APP
VIDEO DAILY ACTIVATOR: Dateline MSNBC Interview with Masha Gessen (10:24 minutes) - 11/22/18
HOMEWORK ARTICLE:
“How Game Theory and the Nash Equilibrium can help decide cybersecurity responses” – 5/2/17
