Fascinating starter in which students have to spot and then explain the differences between three pairs of photos of Soviet leaders Lenin and Stalin taken between 1920 and 1930. Excellent material to promote discussion of manipulation of leaders’ image and the cult of the personality.
Resources
| Lesson or enquiry | Historical focus |
|---|---|
| Now you see it, now you don’t: how Lenin and Stalin used the ‘airbrush’ | Manipulating photographs and historical records |
| Downfall of the Tsar | Explaining the collapse of Tsarist rule |
| Lenin: the final verdict | Evaluating Lenin’s leadership and legacy |
| Interpreting a political cartoon of Stalin | Political cartoon analysis |
| Why did the Reds win the Russian Civil War? A history mystery to explain why they could SLUG it out | Explaining victory in the Civil War |
