VCE Russian Revolution lecture

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VCE Russian Revolution lecture

• AOS 1 2
• Studied as 1st or 2nd Rev.

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AOS 1 1905-1917

• Why study History?
• Greatest stories, people individuals,
  communities, countries, soul, quest for truth
• Why study Russia? Peoples Tragedy. (20th could
  have been very different. At least Russias
  history would have been different.
• All learning Arrive confused, but leave confused
  at a higher level.

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Events

• 1904-5 Russo Japanese War.
• 1905 Jan. Bloody Sunday Massacre
• 1905 Jan-Nov. 1905 Revolution.
• 1905 May. Battle of Tsushima
• 1905 Oct. Trotskys St Petersburg Soviet
• 1905 Oct Manifesto by Tsar
• 1906 April. Fundamental State Laws
• 1906 May. Formation of the Duma

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Events

• 1906 Witte replaced with Stolypin
• 1906 Stolypins land reforms oppression
• 1911 Stols assassinated
• 1912 Lena Goldfields Massacre
• 1912 Formal split of Bolsh/Mensh
• 1913 Economy picking up
• 1913 Romanov Tri-Centenary
• 1914 WW1 (1914-1918)
• 1915 Tsar takes control of Army

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Events

• 1915 Tsarina Rasputin running the Government
• 1916 Dec. Rasputin assassinated.
• 1917 Feb. Putilov/Int.Womens Day March.
• 1917 Feb Revolution
• 1917 Feb. Provisional Govt/ Petro Soviet
• 1917 March. Tsar abdicates
• 1917 March . Sov Order No1

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Events

• 1917 April. Lenin returns. April Theses
• 1917 June Offensive
• 1917 July Days
• 1917 Aug. Kornilov Revolt
• 1917 Oct Rev
• 1917 Dec. Constituent Assembly elections
• 1917 Dec. Cheka formed
• 1918 Jan. Dismissal on Const. Assem

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Events

• 1918 Jan. Civil War
• 1918 March. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• 1918 May. War Communism implemented
• 1918 July. Assassination of Romanovs
• 1918 Aug-Sept. Kulak Laws
• 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion
• 1921 NEP

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Events

• 1922 Show Trials
• 1923 Formation of USSR
• 1924 Lenin dies

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Leaders/Personalities

• Tsar
• Tsarina
• Lenin
• Trotsky
• Witte
• Stolypin
• Rasputin
• Marx Engels

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Leaders/Personalities

• Rodzianko
• Dzerzhinsky
• Kollantai
• Krupskaya

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Ideas

• Autocracy/Tsarism
• Marxism/ Leninism
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Proletariat
• Bourgeoisie
• Terror
• War Communism
• NEP

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Ideas

• State wither away
• Classless utopia
• All Power to the Soviets
• Dictatorship of the Prols
• Education
• Electrification. Goelro

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Groups/movements

• Bolsheviks Soc Demos
• Mensheviks Soc Demos
• Social Revolutionary Party
• Kadets
• Octobrists
• Peasants, Kulaks. rural Prols
• Industrial workers. urban Prols
• Cossacks

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Groups/ movs

• Bourgeoisie
• Church
• Okhrana
• Duma
• Progressive Bloc
• Prov Govt
• Petro Soviet
• Red Guard

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Groups/movs

• Red Army
• Soviets, Mir, Zemstvos
• Cheka
• Whites
• Reds
• Greens
• Sovnarkom
• Politburo/Orgburo Secretariat

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Documents

• Karl Marx Communist Manifesto 1848
• Lenin What is to be Done 1902
• Fr Gapon Bloody Sunday Petition 1905
• Tsar Nicholas II October Manifesto 1905
• Duma Abdication doc Feb 1917
• Soviet Order No1. March 1917
• Lenin April Theses 1917
• Lenin Kulak Law 1918
• Lenin Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
• Kronstadt Petition 1921
• Lenin Political Will 1922

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Historians

• Pipes
• Figes
• Service
• Fitzpatrick
• Ryan/Malone
• Reed
• Soviet view

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Devilishly cunning VCE, AOS1 1st Rev 1905-1917

• 2 extended paragraphs of 10 marks each
• Answer the question
• HAMBURGER, 3 layers, 3/4 main points. Factual
  content with insight
• Writing a killer opening paragraph/mini essay
• Past VCE Qs
• 2005 VCE Q1 Lenins ideas Q 2 Nicholas IIs
  Abdication
• 2006 VCE Q1 Bloody Sunday Q 2 Prov. Govt.

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VCE AOS1

• 2007 VCE Q1 WWI Abdication Q2 Lenins policies
• 2008 VCE Q1 Tsar Oct Manifesto Q2 Prov. Govt.
• 2009 VCE Q1 Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. Q2
  Lenins April Theses

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VCE AOS1

• 2010 VCE Q1 WW1-Oct1917 Q2 Kornilov
  July-Oct1917
• 2011 VCE Q1 Q2

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Russia AOS II. 1st RevDocs/images 1917-1924

• Discriminating Q.
• Image/ Document/ Historiography
• Structured questions a, b, c d
• a and b comprehension . 2 marks each
• c 6 marks and d 10 marks, Writing a killer
  opening paragraph
• HAMBURGER, 3 layers, 3/4 main points. Factual
  content with insight

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Russia 1st Rev. AOSII. VCE past Qs. Docs/images

• 2005 VCE Pipes on Lenin
• 2006 VCE Kronstadt Petition 1921
• 2007 VCE Lenin defending using terror 1918
• 2008 VCE Orlando Figes
• 2009 VCE Lenins NEP 1921
• 2010 VCE Lenin on Constit.Assembly 1918

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Russia. as 2nd Rev AOS1Docs/images 1905-1917

• Discriminating Q.
• Image/ Document/ Historiography
• Structured questions a, b, c d
• a and b comprehension
• c and d, Writing a killer opening paragraph
• HAMBURGER, 3 layers, 3/4 main points. Factual
  content with insight

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Russia as 2nd Rev AOS 1VCE Past Qs.

• 2005 VCE Bloody Sunday poster 1905
• 2006 VCE Feb Rev poster 1917
• 2007 VCE Oct Rev poster 1917
• 2008 VCE Bloody Sunday poster 1905
• 2009 VCE Miliukov doc. 1916/Feb 1917
• 2010 VCE Q Rasputin poster/Feb 1917
• 2011 VCE Q?

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Russia as 2nd Rev AOS 2 1917-1924 Essay

• 2005 Choice of 3pol change, signif change,
  crises and compromises
• 2006 Choice of 3 rigid and auth, benefits,
  original aims and reality
• 2007 Choice of 3 leaders modifying ideals,
  difficulties, signif change
• 2008 Choice of 3 resolve grievances, successful
  in fulfilling ideals, nature of pol authority

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Essay

• 2009 Set Q. Contention from Figes that Lenins
  Bolsh. Party set out with high ideals, only to
  find out later that the outcome was quite
  different.
• To what extent had the original ideals of the
  Bolshevik Party been altered by 1924?
• Use evidence to support your response.

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Essay

• 2010 Set Q. Contention from Pipes argues that
  judged in terms of its own aspirations, the
  communist regime was a monumental failure it
  succeeded in one thing only-staying in power.
• To what extent were the aspirations of the
  Bolshevik Party achieved by 1924?
• Use evidence to support your answer.

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Help

• www.studyroom.info www.vcaa.vic.edu.au
• Virtual classroom. USB or school website
• university websites
• Nicholas Alexandra 1971, Ten Days that Shook
  the World BBC, Reds, Dr Zhivago, docos
• Teachers Historians
• Past students lectures
• HTAV days
• Text, Leading Edge, Checkpoints,wide reading
  BHW

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Help

• Inter-school activity
• Prac SACs against the clock
• VCE marking
• Preparation breeds confidence/enjoyment