Historical Interpretations/Perspectives Revised Flashcards
(35 cards)
France - Overview
“Privilege was the hallmark of a country without uniform laws or institutions.”
-William Doyle
France - Louis’ Power
“Louis inherited a power too contested to remain an absolute monarch … but was too weak to lead his kingdom towards something else.”
-Francois Furet
France - Calling of the Estates-General
“No one could remember a time where the government had consulted the people, and no one suspected that such a time would come again.”
-JM Thompson
France - National Assembly Establishment
“The establishment of [The National Assembly] had facilitated the momentus transfer of popular sovereingty from the King to the Nation.”
-Michael Adock
France - Peasant’s Lack of Freedom
“Although the peasants had been freed from the feudal system, they did not all benefit equally from their new liberty.”
-Alfred Soboul
France - DORMAC
“[DORMAC] was the establishment of the revolutionary principles of a new golden age.”
-Peter McPhee
France - Clergy
“The clergy were to suffer even more cataclysmically than the nobility.”
-William Doyle
France - CCC
“As a result of [the CCC], the Catholic Church came to be associated with the counter-revolution … which the revolution wished to eradicate.”
-Caroline C. Ford
France - Legislative Assembly
“The [Legislative] Assembly was thus made the master of the state, and the Assembly was the French bourgeoisie.”
-Georges Lefebvre
France - War with Austria
“The war was one of the major turning points of the revolutionary period and would dominate the history of France.”
-Peter McPhee
France - September Massacres / Overall Violence
“Do you want a revolution without a revolution?”
-Maxemillien Robespierre
France - The King’s Execution
“Regicide meant there would be no compromise, no going back.”
-William Doyle
France - Counter Revolution in the Vendee
“[Frenchmen on both sides] turning this fury and rage against one another … ultimately forgetting they were humans.”
-Local Priest
France - The Terror
“The state policy duringg [the Terror] used institutionalised violence and threat of violence.”
-Timothy Tackett
Russia - The Russo-Japanese War
“The Japanese are infidels. The might of Holy Russia will crush them.”
-Tsar Nicholas II
Russia - Bloody Sunday
“There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar.”
-Father Georgi Gapon
Russia - The Dumas
“[The Dumas] quickly turned acrimonious, condemning the first experiment in popular government to failure.”
-Abraham Asche
Russia - The Fundamental Laws
“We have been given a constitution, but absolutism remains.”
-Leon Trotsky
Russia - World War One
“War is the midwife of every society pregnant with a new one.”
-Friederich Engels
Russia - The February Revolution
“This is a hooligan movement, young people run and shout that there is no brad, simply to create excitement, along with workers who prevent others from working.”
-Tsarina Alexandra
Russia - The Power of the Provisional Government
“The provisional government does not possess any real power.”
-Alexander Guchkov (former Duma chairman)
Russia - Lenin’s April Thesis
“Our tactics: absolute distrust, no support for the Provisional Government.”
-Vladimir Lenin
Russia - The July Days
“The flight of the shepherd [Lenin] could not but deliver a heavy blow to the sheep.”
-Richard Pipes
Russia - The Kornilov Affair
“It’s time to hang the German supporters and spies, with Lenin at their head, and to disperse the Soviets!”
-General Lavr Kornilov
