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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.
"Memo Report from the Head of the KGB Administration under the Ukr. SSR Council of Ministers for Kiev Oblast, Fesenko, to Comrade Tsybulko V.M., First Secretary of the Kiev Oblast Committee of the CP of Ukraine", April 2, 1973, Wilson Center Digital Archive, HDA SBU, f. 11, spr. 991, t. 1. Originally published by the Center for Research into the Liberation Movement (TsDVR) together with the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv at http://avr.org.ua/index.php/viewDoc/24456/. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/134288
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
Comrade Tsybulko V.M.
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
First Secretary or Kyiv Oblast Committee of the CP of Ukraine
When was the primary source created?
o
April 2
nd
, 1973
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
This source was first created at the SSR Council of Ministers for Kyiv Oblast, in Ukraine. Then the source was translated and uploaded by the Center for Research into the Liberation Movement (TsDVR) together with the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
Members of Kyiv Oblast committee of the CP of Ukraine
Why was the primary source created?
o
This source was created to make an official record of the short cuts and violations of technical standards that were made during the construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
1
o
This source is the perspective of Comrade Tsybulko was the First Secretary of the Chernobyl Regional Committee of Ukraine Communist Party, which was a high rank within the Ukrainian SSR. Source Two
Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
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.
Şafak, Y. (2021, April 27). Chernobyl disaster liquidators recall horrors of nuclear accident. Yeni Şafak
. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/chernobyl-disaster-liquidators-recall-
horrors-of-nuclear-accident-3570995
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
This source is the culmination of multiple firsthand accounts of Chernobyl liquidators, some of the people inte4rviewed include Olexandr Lyashenko, Ivan Bokun, and Kamal Aliyev. A newspaper named Yeni Safak reported on the firsthand accounts.
What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
Two of the persons were military officials one a chemistry specialist and the other was a retired military service member called back to serve for the disaster. The third person was a mechanic who had a normal life, up until the disaster.
When was the primary source created?
o
The firsthand accounts reported their experiences happened between April 26
th
, 1987, to October 19
th
, 1987.
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
April 4
th
, 2021
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
The intended audience was the world.
Why was the primary source created?
o
This source was created to share the survivors’ stories with the world. To give insight, perspective, and knowledge from an event that hopefully never occurs again.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
The perspectives presented in this source range from highly educated military personnel, average civilians, and retired service members.
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