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This is a fantastic teaching/ learning resource for teachers and students. The website contains a variety of original sources including photographs, articles and interviews both parties can discover and explore. Teachers can harness the website for web based research tasks such as a web quest, due to the layout and content student engagement will be high. For students this is a quality historical website that groups relevant information in an easy format for students to explore the Romanov era in great depth. Text is supported with photographs where students discover personalities and rooms and artefacts of the palace, historical sources that thoroughly engage students. || This website is a great introductory tool for students and teachers to discover major personalities of the time. The website follows a chronological layout of the personalities which is important to easily gain an understanding of the major figures. The website also provides a variety of related links that explore the journeys of the family. The website is mainly text based at a basic level for student understanding and can be used for understanding of basic topics of for research purposes. || This text is a learning/ teaching resource currently in use in some schools across NSW. Its value is in the depth of information provided to the students in an easy to understand language and gauges student learning at a higher level. The book includes profiles maps and pictures to supplement the text and break up the large volumes. Not only is this book useful for a study of the Romanovs it also adds to other Russian Modern History units. This text is a wonderful tool for the class room that can be used to gage understanding, for discovery and questioning tasks. || This site is considered a virtual museum of the Ipatiev House, it provides a sense of mystery for students investigating the topic. The site includes a virtual tour of inside and outside the house and provides historical context supplemented with great sources. || The Greek Orthodox Resource on the Russian Royal Family includes various writings, commentaries, compilations and pictures on the Russian Royal Family. || This sight focuses around an exhibition on Nicholas and Alexandra, the last imperial family of Tsarist Russia. This exhibition is more about the lives of the last Imperial Family that Russia was to know than about the events around them which defined the course of Russian history. It is about their triumphs and tragedies, their accomplishments and failures. It is about the very heart and soul of Russia's history and heritage. || This site show the Scientific Expedition to Account for the Romanov Children is an organization dedicated to the restoration of Truth in Russia's history. Members have worked with universities and organizations in the United States and Russia to initiate archaeological expeditions to Ekaterinburg, Russia. The purpose of these expeditions is to search for the missing remains of two Romanov children. || Livadia is a site in the form of a tribute to the Romanov children. Here, you'll find OTMAA's scrapbooks and various other interesting features. Students can explore the site where the scrapbooks are written in first person as if children had written, they offer an invaluable historical perspective. || This website follows the historical dig and investigation of the bones believed to belong to the Romanovs. It provides photographs and reconstructions of the remains, a great hook for students interested in the gory side of the story. || This site provides students and teachers with valuable original resources including photos letters and manuscripts. Visitors can explore all the original sources or flick through family memories in the albums collected for this site. || This website provides an insight into the royal Russian family, the site includes photos videos and news on the topic. The site also includes a list of other website resources, publications and books available for the visitor to explore. || Key Features of Modern History (fourth edition) by Bruce Dennet and Stephen Dixon is a textbook directed at the Year 11 and 12 Modern History course and NSW syllabus. The textbook covers the Decline and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (chapter 3) which starts off with a timeline of the Romanov Dynasty which is useful as students can use this as a reference of the major events. E.g. 1914: The First World War breaks out. This section has document study questions and sources for on the Romanov Dynasty. This is useful as teachers can give this for homework. The questions range from source analysis to writing a letter. || This text has an entire chapter dedicated to the fall of the Romanovs (pages 24-41), and offers the student a detailed summary of the numerous factors that contributed to the decline and fall of the Romanovs. || This is quite a long and detailed text covering the entire Romanov dynasty. Only the final chapters will be of relevance to the topic, but due to how long and detailed the text is, it’d be best if the teacher were to select parts of it for the students to read, or use it themself to support their teaching content. ||
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 * || Cantwell, Thomas and Jan Brady. //Russia and the Soviet Union: Autocracy to Dictatorship//. Sydney: McGraw- Hill, 2008.
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 * || Dixon, S. and B. Bruce. //Key Features of Modern History// (fourth edition). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press, 2008.
 * || Service, Robert. //A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin.// USA: The Penguin Press, 2001.
 * || Lincoln, W. Bruce. //The Romanovs: autocrats of all the Russias//. New York: Dial Press, 1981.