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Week 11 Supplemental Assignment

READINGS

Massie. Nicholas and Alexandra. Chpts.30-Epilogue [89pp.]

Knopf. St. Petersburg [Guide]. pp.46-47.

WEB TOPICS:

The Last Days of the Romanovs

• The Last Days of the Imperial Family
  The Romanovs: A Royal Family. ©Copyright 2000 Jane Kuo.
  The Romanovs: The Doomed Dynasty. From Corie Hurley.
  The Unofficial Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov Home Page. [anon. source]
  The First Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov Home Page. From "Paco."
  Nicholas and Alexandra Exhibit. Opening in Mobile, Alabama (June 12- Nov.14, 1999). Go to the "Exhibition Sitemap" to see how this exhibit will be set up.

• The Death of Nicholas and Alexandra and family
  "Where is Anastasia?". LawBuzz.com © 1999 Bos & Glazier, PLC.
  *Death of a Dynasty. From the BBC. Includes links to other sites.
  Exploring Anastasia.From the BBC News.Another section of the above site.
  Ipatiev House: The Romanov Memorial. Copyright 1999-2001 Romanov-Memorial.
  Royal Russia. Brief history of the family. Links to other sites. From the Imperial Russian Historical Society.
  

• The Burial of Nicholas and Alexandra and family
  *Romanovs Laid to Rest. From the BBC. Includes these TV coverage clips:
  
  • BBC's Jim Fish reports from St. Petersburg.
    
  • Listen to the songs of remembrance inside the cathedral.
    
  • The BBC's Alan Little: "The Service will not even mention the names of the royal family".
    
  • Andrew Harding reports on the controversy surrounding the tsar's burial".
    
  Royal Funeral: The Czar's Russian Rites. Several pictures, information on the DNA of the bones debate. From CBC radio.
  *Romanovs Remembered. July 17, 1998. The News Hour with Jim Leher. Includes a link to the real audio version of this site. [17 min.]. There is also a Czar Burial Articles. Links to articles from the Antipas home site..
  Photo of the Bones of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Along with a dozen or so links to more information about the burial. From the home page of Sam Sloan.

• The "Pretenders"
  Tsarevich Alexei: Lenin's Greatest Secret . Claim that Alexis survived. "Proof" of that in a lengthy text (37pp!) with pictures from J. Kendrick 1997.
  Anastasia is unquestionably the greatest movie of its kind ever made. Page tells how the movie differs from fact. With lots of links. From Sam Sloan.
  Anastasia: The Unmasking of Anna Anderson. Father Nektarios Serfes.

• The Canonization of Nicholas and Alexandra and their family
  Canonization of Nicholas II. From the Public Opinion Foundation Database.
  The Holy Canonization And Glorification of Tsar Nicholas II And Family In Russia. Compiled by Father Demetrios Serfes.
  Report of the Holy Synod Commission on the Canonization of Saints with Respect to the Martyrdom of the Royal Family. Published on the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate site (Moscow, 1996).
  "Russia's Last Czar to be Sainted for 'Humility' of his Death, but not for his Life". From the Christianity Today website. Links to news stories.

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  The Civil War and Intervention

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• Lenin Reburial?
  Russian Patriarch Wants Lenin Moved. Antipas.
  

• Civil War - Kolchak; Wrangel
  The Russian Civil War: 1918-1921. Lecture by Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College. Source: Donald W. Treadgold, Twentieth Century Russia, (Westview Press, 1987).
  From the Sea to the River: Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak and the Russian Civil War. From Wolfhound. 127th U.S. Army Division.
  Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, VI: The Russian Civil War and the Russo-Polish War. From the Museum of Communism site.
  Russian Civil War. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  

• Trotsky
  Lev Davidovich Trotsky. A biographical sketch by A.V. Lunacharsky.
  A History of the Russian Revolution. A few chapters from Trotsky's book on the Russian Revolution. [Read Chtp.4.:"The Tsar and the Tsarina".]
  Leon Trotsky. Writings, photos. (From "Progressive Sociology Network" home page at University of Colorado, Boulder. Glenn W. Muschert.)

• Intervention
  Allied Expeditionary Force POWs, Siberia - 1919. Courtesy of Glenn Hyatt, WWI-L: Testimony before the 102nd US Congress, November 1991, concerning the AEF experience in Russia at the end of the Great War and the possible abandonment of American POWs.
  Allied Expeditionary Force POWs, Siberia - 1919. Courtesy of Glenn Hyatt.
  *The Russian Intervention, 1918-1920. From Wolfhound. 127th Division U.S. Army.
  *The 27th Infantry: AEF Siberia. From the 27th Infantry Regimental Historical Society, Inc. The WOLFPACK.
  *The Russian Intervention: The Trans-Siberian Railroad.
  Much Ado About Nothing: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. From Prof. Bryan Caplan, Dept. of Economics, George Mason University.

• Soviet Union and the United States
  The Soviet Union and the United States. A page from the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress. (An introduction.)
  Early Cooperation. A page from the Soviet Archvies Exhibit at the Library of Congress--information on famine relief and economic cooperation. Includes: a document on the food shipments to Russia; a note from the commissariat on Finances.
  Soviet and American Communist Parties. A page from the Soviet Archives Exhibit at the Library of Congress. Includes a testimony of Gitlow.
  

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