Sadaf- History Revolutions Russian Unit 3/4: Full Notes

These notes include every point of the 2023 study design explained in detail, clearly organised and with explanatory images. Such notes will be helpful for upcoming students as it includes historian perspectives, quotes and statistics to aid in their interpretations. Also includes causes, events, ideas, individuals and popular movements as making up the key foundations of the unit. Includes: Events and conditions that contributed to the outbreak of revolution - Institutional weaknesses and tensions in Tsarist Russia - Economic and social inequalities - Russo-Japanese War - Bloody Sunday - October Manifesto - The Fundamental Laws - Limitations of the Dumas - WW1 - February Revolution - Effectiveness of the Provisional Government - Dual authority - Lenin’s return + The April Thesis - July days - Kornilov Affair - Events of the October 1917 Ideals that played a significant role in challenging the existing order including: - Tsarist autocracy - Liberal ideas and reforms - Marxism and Marxism-Leninism Role of individuals in challenging or maintaining the power of the existing order - Tsar Nicholas II - Tsarina Alexandra - Pyotr Stolypin - Rasputin - Alexander Kerensky - Vladimir Lenin - Leon Trotsky Contribution of popular movements in mobilising society and challenging the existing order - Workers protests - Peasants’ uprisings - Soldier and sailor mutinies - Role of political parties: socialist revolutionaries, Bolsheviks/Mensheviks (SD’s), Octoberists and Kadets. Challenges the new regime faced in attempting to consolidate it’s power - Initial problems faced by the Sovnarkom - The Constituent Assembly + it’s dissolution - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Civil War - Red and White Terror - Policies of State Capitalism - War Communism - Kronstadt Revolt Changes and continuities in political, social and cultural conditions that influenced leaders to compromise and/or achieve their revolutionary ideas - Role of the Cheka - Issuing of New Decrees - State Capitalism - War Communism - 1921 Famine - Tenth Party Congress - Effects of the NEP - Artistic experimentation, initiatives in education and women’s rights Roles of significant individuals that influenced and changed society - Vladimir Lenin - Leon Trotsky - Felix Dzerzhinsky - Alexandra Kollontai Diverse revolutionary experiences of social groups and their responses to the challenges and changes to the conditions of everyday life - Nobles - Peasants - Workers - The bourgeoisie - Women Extent of continuity and change in Russian society 1896-1927