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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.
Lieut. Col. Aksenov (1986, May 3). Deputy Head of the 6
th
Department of the KGB Administration Lieut. Col. Aksenov, ‘Notice of Emergency Incident.’ Wilsoncenter.org. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/deputy-head-6th-department-kgb-
administration-lieut-col-aksenov-notice-emergency-1
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
The authors of this primary source are Lieutenant Colonel Aksenov, the Soviet Union Committee for State Security, and the Ukraine Committee for State Security
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
The author’s position in the time of society at the time the primary source was created was he was the Deputy head of the 6
th
Department of the KGB Administration.
When was the primary source created?
o
The primary source was created approximately 1 week after the explosion happened on May 3, 1986.
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
The primary source was released to the public in Ukraine, Chernobyl, and the surrounding areas.
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
The intended audience was the people affected by the disaster.
Why was the primary source created?
o
The primary source was created to inform the people of the affected areas of the actions that were being taken to minimize the effects and reassure the people that action was being taken to get the incident under control.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
The perspective presented in this source is the perspective of the government. The KGB Administration.
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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.
Pikhoia, Rudolph (1986, April 28). Extraordinary Session of the CC CPSU Politburo. National Security Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19491-national-security-archive-doc-4-
extraordinary
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
The First Director of the Russian State archival agency Rudolph Pikhoia.
What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
The author’s position in society was he was in a government position as the first Director or the Russian state archival agency.
When was the primary source created?
o
The primary source was created 2 days after the explosion happened.
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
The primary source was published in a book on the history on the Soviet government.
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
The intended audience for this primary source is the Communist party of the Soviet Union as most sessions from the party are still secret in the Russian Presidential Archive.
Why was the primary source created?
o
This primary source was created to help people understand the first discussion of the Chernobyl accident by the Politburo.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
The perspectives being presented in the source are the Politburo which is the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Both Sources
Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
The first source is a Notice of Emergency Incident sent out tot the public and affected areas. This
source is informing the people of the actions being taken to control the problems caused from the explosion. This source doesn’t seem to present a bias as it is just stating basic information and immediate measures that were taken. 2
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