Russia Revolutions AOS1 Interpretations Cue Cards Flashcards
(24 cards)
Smith on long term economic problems
“the collapse of the autocracy was rooted in a crisis of modernisation”
History of the Communist Party on Bloody Sunday
“the people’s faith in the tsar was riddled with bullets that day”
Pipes on the impact of the October Manifesto
“in the end Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell”
Trotsky on the impact of the October Manifesto
‘although there were a few broken ribs, tsarism came out of the experience of 1905 alive and well’
Trotsky on the limitations of the Dum
‘everything is given and nothing is given”
Pipes= Impact of WW1
the collapse of tsarism ‘was made likely by the deep-seated cultural and political flaws … that proved fatal under the pressure generated by WW1’
Wood= February Revolution
“a spontaneous upsurge of politically radicalized masses’
Kerensky= Dual Authority
‘the Soviet had power without authority, the Provisional Government authority without power’
Taylor= Provisional Government
Taylor compared the PG’s unwillingness to implement reform to a chicken continuing to run around after having its head cut off - ‘no one knew how to change direction’
Rabinowitch= Lenin’s Impact
‘Tailoring the Bolshevik programme so that it would reflect popular aspirations was one of Lenin’s most important contributions’
Faulkner= July Days
‘a vast display of Bolshevik power’
Fitzpatrick= July Days
the Bolsheviks were ‘caught off balance’
Trotsky= Kornilov Affair
‘the army that rose against Kornilov was the army to be of the October Revolution’
Lynch= October 1917
‘the Bolsheviks were pushing against an already open door’
Adcock= Liberals
‘liberals are evidence of the tsarist regime creating its own enemies’
Figes= Tsar Nicholas
Nicholas was ‘the source of all the problems’
Service= Tsar Nicholas
‘it was the general situation’ to blame for his abdication
Pares= Tsarina
‘ministers were selected by an ignorant, blind, hysterical woman’
Wood= Rasputin
‘the scandal that surrounded Rasputin’s name was merely a symptom’
Wade= Bolsheviks
‘became a political alternative for the disappointed and disenchanted’
Wood= Kerensky
‘the Bolsheviks made no secret of their preparations for insurrection but Kerensky seemed impotent to stop it’
McCauley= Kerensky
‘Kerensky single-handedly discredited… the Provisional Government’
Fitzpatrick= Dual Authority
‘Dual power’ proved an illusion, masking something like a power vacuum’
Pipes= Dual Authority
‘Russia was governed – or rather misgoverned – by a regime of dual power’
