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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Bias in Primary Sources Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the primary source you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed text with your responses. Source One Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event. Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link to it. You will not be penalized for incorrect format.  Alexievich, S. (2006). Voices from Chernobyl: The oral history of a nuclear disaster (K. Gessen, Trans.). Picador. (Original work published 1997)  https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/lib/snhu-ebooks/detail.action? docID=6840804 Respond to the following questions:  Who authored or created the primary source? Alexievich, Svetlana and Gessen, Keith  What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created? Nobel prize winning female journalist.  When was the primary source created? After the Chernobyl incident, created in 2015  Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized? The primary source was created in 1996 by taking many interviews and investigating to complete the book  Who was the intended audience for the primary source? The Author’s intended audience for this primary source for anyone who wanted to hear the voices of the people who were affected by the incident.  Why was the primary source created? The source was written to be an oral history documentation of the events that occurred in Chernobyl.  Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source? It is written in the people’s perspective who were there. Source Two Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event. 1

Attempt to write the APA style citation for your second primary source and include a link to it. You will not be penalized for incorrect format. Geist, E. (2015). Political fallout: The failure of emergency management at Chernobyl’. Slavic Review , 74 (1), 104–126. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104 Respond to the following questions:  Who authored or created the primary source? The author is Edward Geist  What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was created? The author is a researcher of nuclear weapons in Russia. The Author has a Ph.D in history from the University of North Carolina.  When was the primary source created? The primary source was created in the Slavic Review, Volume 74, Issue 1, in 2015  Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized? o The source was published by Cambridge University Press  Who was the intended audience for the primary source? I think the intended audience was directed political as well as to show the Soviet Government the peoples voices who were affected.  Why was the primary source created? The source was created to explore the political logic that stopped the USSR from responding appropriately and professionally to the aid and information of the citizens.  Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source? The perspective is that of the authors but includes all different sources points of view and information. Both Sources Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.  The disaster in Chernobyl was the result of inefficient response systems in place and lack of preparation for mistakes or failures. The first plan was to hide the truth and tell a story that was untrue in the act of trying to cover up the true story. After being called out by the people for not giving resources and aid they came out with the truth about what had happened. This led to the Soviet systems collapse. Compare how your historical event is represented in your primary sources.  Chernobyl was an even that was attempted to be covered up but it was handled poorly. Like most lies the truth was exposed when stories told by the government did not match up. The sources both represent the truth about the event and explain what really happened. 2

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