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FSEM 100: Left-Wing Authoritarianism: Stalin, Mao, and Castro

This page was created for Monika Kurlander's Fall 2020 FSEM students. Updated for Fall 2023.

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These articles are in library research databases. Which one is a primary source about women in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Which one is a secondary source?

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