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Brandhorst, Allan R. – Social Science Record, 1990
Describes how social studies teachers can explore students' knowledge of communism and the Soviet Union. Explains how to help students make sense of communism's fall. Encourages teachers to ask students what happened, why, and what it means for the future. Explores course evaluation and the topic's meaning for all U.S. citizens. (SG)
Descriptors: Communism, Course Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Burton, John W. – Social Science Record, 1988
Analyzes how the need to maintain the societal system results in the practice of power politics and the repression of human needs. Examines how democracy is an institutionalized means of resistance to demands for human needs. States that the Western political philosophy's interest-oriented system is a major source of global violence. (GEA)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Communism, Democracy, Foreign Policy