1. May 8, 2012
Objective: Students will examine Soviet leaders in order to
determine the impact of leadership decisions on political stability
and economic growth in the Soviet Union.
QuickWrite: Why might the Hammer and Sickle have been chosen
to represent the USSR? What do these symbols and the name,
“Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” suggest about the ideals on
which the nation was founded?
Homework: Which Soviet leader experienced the greatest
success? Why?

2. Vladimir Lenin

3. Josef Stalin

4. Graphic Organizer
Leaders of the Soviet Union
•issues that confronted the leader upon taking charge
of the Soviet Union
•actions taken by the leader to address those issues
•the impact of the leader’s actions on political
stability, economic growth, and the Russian people