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Crimes of Communism: An Intro to a Century of Human Rights Violations

Completed by 14 learners
Ages 13-18
Live One-Time Class
In this one-time class, we'll cover a brief survey of the long catalogue of crimes against humanity committed by Communist regimes across the world since 1917, including the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward, and the Killing Fields.
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Live video meetings
Meets once
4-7 learners per class
55 min

What's included

1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade 8 - 11
This lecture-style course is an introduction to crimes committed by Communist regimes over the past century. Unlike the human rights crimes of Nazism, which are  - as they should be - well known and covered substantially in public schools, the crimes committed by Communist regimes are not well known in the West. And yet, more than a billion people, living on almost every continent in the world, have lived under Communist dictatorships over the past century. Collectively, those regimes have murdered more than 100 million people. Countries affected include Russia, all of Eastern Europe, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Angola, and Ethiopia. The impact and legacy of these human rights crimes have thus touched very widely on humanity as a whole.

In this class, we will cover some basics of this history, including:
* These governments were formed by Marxist-Leninist Parties. We'll look at the key tenets Lenin and his successors used to justify dictatorship.
* The history of the Russian Revolution and the Holodomor under Stalin.
* The Great Leap Forward in China.
* The Killing Fields in Cambodia

These constitute some of the worst crimes against humanity in human history. This class is thus not for sensitive learners.

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Parental Guidance
This class deals with crimes against humanity. It will be taught in a PG-13 manner, no graphic pictures will be included, for example. Instead it will be using testimonials and statistics. Content includes descriptions of killings, policies that result in mass death, mass terror and incarceration, famine, cannibalism, experiments, and more.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
The Communist Manifesto Simon Sebag Montefiore "The Court of the Red Czar" Courteois et al "The Black Book of Communism" Leszek Kolakowski "Main Currents of Marxism" Rummel, J, "Democide in the 20th Century". Anne Applebaum "Inside the Iron Curtain"

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Joined March, 2021
5.0
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Doctoral Degree from University of Alberta
This class deals with crimes against humanity. I have taken a graduate student level course comparing crimes against humanity from WWII until the genocide in Rwanda, including the implications for restorative justice. I have also taught this subject matter on university level for many years. For young learners, I ran a tutorial on totalitarian rule as part of my B.Ed. 6 week practicum for three grade 9s.

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