Teaching Activities

1. Role play exercise. Divide the class into into five groups, each representing one of Zinoviev, Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev and Bukharin. Each group to prepare and argue its case as to why their individual should become the next leader of the USSR following Lenin’s death in 1924.
2. Consider the first three Five-Year Plans, and list any similarities and differences between the three, in terms of aims, processes and results.