Leveled Readings / Soviet Ukraine Resolution on Blacklisting Villages for “Sabotage” of Grain Collection (1932)
Soviet Ukraine Resolution on Blacklisting Villages for “Sabotage” of Grain Collection (1932)
Resolution of the Soviet Ukrainian government and Communist Party (December 6, 1932)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Immediate cessation of delivery of goods, complete suspension of cooperative and state trade in the villages, and removal of all available goods from cooperative and state stores.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Villages on the list would get no goods. Stores would stop selling to them, and goods would be taken out.
Adapted · about grade 7
Blacklisted villages would get no more deliveries, all state and cooperative trade there would stop, and all goods would be removed from their stores.
Adapted · about grade 10
The order called for immediately stopping deliveries of goods, fully suspending state and cooperative trade in the villages, and removing all goods from their stores.
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