Study Guides for Teachers

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Glossary of terms used in The Kulak's Daughter:

kulak - wealthy peasant (wealthy meaning: owns land and hires outside help)
OGPU - the secret police. Later morphed into the GPU (1934) and then the KGB (1954)
Gulag - an acronym for 'Chief Directorate or Administration of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies' Basically, a 'corrective labour camp'.
Communism - a political theory "advocating the elimination of private property" (Webster's Dictionary) Karl Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
Collective farm - "a farm formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under government supervision" (Webster's Dictionary)
Proletariat - a worker
lice - a parasite that sucks blood
bedbugs - are bloodsucking parasites, causing big, itchy welts.
typhus - "a severe human febrile disease marked by high fever, stupor alternating with deleium, intense headaches and a dark red rash, transmitted esp. by body lice" (Webster's Dictionary)

Nonfiction Books

Gulag, a History by Anne Applebaum
In the Midst of Wolves by Don Miller
Under Arrest by Don Miller
Stories From the Old Country by Don Miller
Koba the Dread - Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
We'll Meet Again in Heaven - Germans in the Soviet Union Write Their American Relatives 1925-1937 by Ronald Vossler
Zwanzig Briefe an einen Freund (in German) by Swetlana Allilujewa (Stalin's daughter)
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Everyday Stalinism - Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Stalin by Isaac Deutscher
Stalin's Peasants, Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Journey Into Freedom by Edith Elisabeth Friesen
Harvest of Despair by Karel Berghoff
The Whisperers, Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes

Fiction Books

Es begann in Federowka by Barbara Sass
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine by Marina Lewycka
The Russländer by Sandra Birdsell

Fiction Books for Children

Enough a picture book by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Kobzar's Children - A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories edited by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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Study Guide for The Kulak's Daughter
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