AP English Language and Composition Reading List GENERAL NONFICTION Ambrose‚ Stephen. Undaunted Courage. Follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson‘s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific‚ through the heart- stopping moments of the actual trip‚ to Lewis‘s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. For readers who love detailed history. Barry‚ John M. The Great Influenza. A detailed description of the scourge of the "Spanish flu" of 1918 with interesting elements of the practice
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1954‚ effectively as a dictator. Within the first ten years of his period of rule‚ Stalin introduced significant change to the Soviet Union in areas of policy such as‚ industrialization‚ agriculture‚ education and culture. Despite the fact that some positive implications were perceived within the nation and soviet society regarding the outcomes of his policies relating to industrialization and education‚ the impact of his policies in the areas
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George Orwell’s allegorical novel‚ Animal Farm’ addresses many notions involved in the Russian Revolution‚ a catastrophic failure in the eyes of the world. A dictatorship set up in the stead of communism‚ an endless stream of lies and propaganda‚ as well as political agenda that had saturated the Soviet. It retells of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in a fable form; Animal Farm’ allegorizes the rise of power of the dictator‚ Joseph Stalin and the revolution started by the people
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Doctor Zhivago‚ a 1965 film based on a Russian novel of the same name‚ tells the story of Yuri Zhivago and how his life was constantly changed throughout the Russian revolution. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich describes the daily routine that Ivan Denisovich Shukhov‚ an inmate in a labor camp‚ goes through for eight years to fulfill his sentence. Doctor Zhivago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are both set in Soviet Russia‚ an obvious similarity. Though both works take place in
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It is all a fantasy until the moment we find out that it is real. Reading of Ivan Denisovich’s woes in the Gulag‚ albeit how devastating his experiences were‚ does not compare to the fact that what prisoners went through had actually happened life to human beings. While reading a novel‚ it is a common mistake to assume that what we are reading is completely non-fiction. The presentations‚ specifically the presentation on the Gulag‚ not only gave context to the novel but also solidified the fact that
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Joey Fowler Analysis Of “The Overcoat” In Nicolay Gogol’s short story‚ “The Overcoat”‚ there are many key points which explain the hardships and struggles of living as a poor citizen in 19th century Russia. The economy was awful and most of the authority figures did not care about what happens to these poor people living in the city. The workers in Russia were treated as filthy slaves and had to go through hard working labor for their landowner. If they wanted to leave or get married‚ it was
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Darkness at Noon Exam Why does Nikolai Rubashov confess to crimes against the revolution that he has not committed? What are the political options open to Rubashov following his arrest? Which option does he choose? Are the implications of the political argument in Arthur Koester’s Darkness at Noon anti-revolutionary or merely anti-Stalinist? Is Darkness at Noon an attempt to explain why the Russian Revolution in particular failed or is it an attempt to explain why all revolutions that rely
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One Critical Book Review October 3‚ 2010 Cold War-Period 1 Ivan Denisovich Shukhov was sent to a Soviet concentration camp‚ he was accused of being a spy after being captured by the Germans. He was not a spy but was still falsely punished by the government. My favorite quote of the book is‚ “Can they even tell what the sun to do?” This portrays that when the Communist Party declared that the sun reaches its high point of the day at one instead of noon. He is saying that the Soviet Union controls
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Through the dissection of the novel‚ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich‚ the belief of a pure totalitarian government system existing will be demolished by first discussing what the government can and does control in a totalitarian society‚ then by expressing what they cannot control including the psychological ideas of thought‚ feeling‚ and action. The USSR prison camp had control over what the prisoners wore on a day-to-day basis. They provided a pair of mittens‚ a shirt and vest‚ and trousers
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Joseph Stalin’s official reign of terror ended with his death in 1953‚ but the effects of his autocratic rule continued for many years to follow. His lasting hold on the people of the former Soviet Union still lingers in a few brainwashed minds. In the article “Stalin’s Afterlife” and the movie “Russia’s War - Blood Upon the Snow”‚ Stalin is portrayed as the monster really was and should be remembered as. It said in “Stalin’s Afterlife”
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