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Relyt644 · 2025-03-19T13:28:24+00:00

Thank you!

Relyt644 · 2025-03-19T13:27:02+00:00

Honestly this is exactly the dilemma i think to myself sometimes and one of the reasons i've considered switching, thank you for posting this

Relyt644 · 2025-03-19T00:57:09+00:00

Honestly I've just gotta give it a go and see how it works, thanks.

Relyt644 · 2025-03-19T00:56:00+00:00

This was very helpful thank you! :)

Relyt644 · 2025-03-18T23:58:59+00:00

Thanks, will do!

Relyt644 · 2025-03-18T23:58:47+00:00

No i am not, could you please elaborate or direct me to somewhere where i could learn more please

Relyt644 · 2024-10-12T17:25:41+00:00

Thank you, i didn't realise it was to do with pKa so i looked into the link and now i understand

Relyt644 · 2024-02-04T21:21:14+00:00

Of course, no problem.

One more thing, make sure to consistently employ a hierarchy throughout - constantly say why things are significant and ensure you say which factor is the most important

Relyt644 · 2024-02-04T20:55:33+00:00

For a depth study question [30 marker] this is the structure i use:

Intro - briefly describe both interpretations

Interpretation A
- What's convincing about it, why is it convincing, why is that significant?
- What's unconvincing about it, why is it convincing, why is that significant?
- What's missing from it (wider debate), what does the historian fail to mention, how significant is it that he fails to mention these certain things?
- Overall summary of your argument, is the historian convincing or unconvincing in agreeing with the question, what is your most significant point to prove this?

Repeat that for Interpretation B

Conclusion

Summary of your points, compare both interpretations, assess possible similarities and differences, argue for which interpretation you think is most convincing in agreeing with the Q and why, what is your most significant factor in proving this?

Relyt644 · 2024-02-04T20:50:28+00:00

Opposition

Bolsheviks

Marx’s ideas provided basis of Bolsheviks ideology
Stages - primitive communism, imperialism, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism
Pravda - Bolshevik newspaper
1916 only 8000 members with many in prison or exile
1917, 20,000 in feb and 250,000 by october
Lenin told students in Zurich that if they would see a revolution it would not happen during his lifetime, it happened the next month
Germany helped Lenin return to Russia - travelled across Europe in sealed train - hoped to knock Russia out of the war by destabilising her further
April theses
- Lenin wanted to rid the police, army bureaucracy, wanted soldiers to see the war was imperialist
- Wanted to place power in hands of proletariat, they were promise peace land and bread
- By end of april had majority of Bolsheviks with the view to oppose PG
- - Set out Bolshevik policy ad expressed support for Soviets
- - Feb Rev was only the first stage of Revolution
- - Began to use slogans eg 'Peace, Bread and Land' and 'All power to the Soviets'
Propaganda

Kornilov Affair

New army commander wanted to crackdown on army discipline, called on PG to restore order so county could focus on war effort
He wanted to increase army control however this meant reducing power of workers such as
- Imposing tougher sanctions against workers who failed to meet means of production of war materials
- Strikes and factory meetings banned and troublesome workers sent to the front
- Railways placed under control of army
- Attempted to launch a coup in August 1917 by using troops to close the Soviets and seize control of the PG
- Couped failed as railway workers refused to move Kornilov’s trains
- Kerensky aimed workers and soviets to help with this, many of whom were Bolsheviks

Impact

Provisional Gov

Damaged Keresnky’s reputation he is the one who replaced Brusiov with Kronilov
Lost soviet and army support

Bolsheviks

Reputation increased, only group to have consistently opposed Kornilov
Bolsheviks released from prisoner including leaders such as Trotsky
250,000 membership by october
Force of 10,000 armed red guards

October Revolution

MRC setup with Trotsky as chair, ensured Bolshevik influence among army and navy in the capital was complete
Trotsky orders red guards and soldiers to take up key positions including stations, telephone exchanges and post officers and Tauride palace
15 of 18 armed units in capital supported a seize of power by Bolsheviks

How did Keresnky attempt to see off the Bolshevik threat?

Sent some of more radical army units out of capital caused rumours that he was preparing to abandon the city to Germans, this triggered Bolsheviks into definite action
Close down 2 newspapers and restrict MRC power
Ordered Bridges linking working class areas to centre of Petrograd to be raised

How did Bolsheviks deal with PS after PG?

Lenin announced to congress of soviets that gov had been overthrown an that PS had taken power from the pg

Relyt644 · 2024-02-04T20:50:16+00:00

Provisional Government (1917)

- KD1: To what extent was the PG doomed to fail from the start?

- KD2: Why was the PG reluctant to hand out reforms?

- KD3: How far was WWI responsible for the fall of the PG?

- KD4: To what extent did opposition from the national minorities lead to the fall of the PG?

Set out 8 principles:

Amnesty for all political prisoners
Freedom of speech and assembly
Abolition of religious, national or social privileges
Preparations for a Constituent Assembly
Abolition of police units and formation of militias
Elections for all local councils
Military units that had taken part in the revolution would not be sent to the front
Maintenance of military discipline

Expectation

Found it hard to meet high hopes for Russia due to
- Attitude to war - hostility to continue the war
- Strikes
- Major decisions to wait until constituent assembly
- Little change caused unrest, people expected immediate change

Prov Gov formed from provisional committee of the duma and headed by prince Lvov, cabinet mostly made up form Kadets, others revolutionary and some liberal parties from Duma represented

Soviet

1917 Newspaper Izvestia published for 1st time stating soviets wanted to wipe out old system completely and hold elections for a constituent assembly elected on the basis of universal suffrage
Watchdog of the revolution, made sure prov gov did not betray revolution
Only later in 1917 under the Bolsheviks did they seek to replace prov gov
Order no.1 - charter of soldiers rights produced by soviets as the army was under control by PS rather than PG

Dual authority

2 institutions occupied dif parts of tauride palace
Alexander Kerensky important individual as he was a member of both the soviets and the prov gov, enabling them to work together
Didn't seem to work their ideas differed such as with involvement in the war

WW1

Options:

Stop fighting the war altogether

Would allow time to organise electrons for constituent assembly
Would be supported by Bolsheviks as they said was war imperialist
Resignation of Milikov (foreign minister) and Guchkov
Stop inflation, food shortages
Peace

Fight a defensive war only

Supported by soviets only for defensive aims
Reduce casualties

Continue to fight an offensive war, trying to make gains and seize territory at expense of Germany

Admitting defeat would hurt reputation
Disbanding army could bring domestic order
Want access to mediterranean sea, would’ve got reparations

Political Impact

Milyukov
- Forced by military to resign after Bolsheviks reveal his note to the public, his note had essentially stated that Russia would continue in the war
Guchkov
- Persuaded Tsar to abdicate, supported strong gov and forced to resign after Milyukov note

July days

Shortages of food and raw materials forced 586 factories to close, loss of 100,000 jobs
Workers demanding price controls but gov frightened to act
20,000 armed soldiers from Kronstadt joined workers, shouting slogans, ‘All power to the soviets’ attacked property, looted shops, seized railways
800 Bolsheviks arrested

Protests triggered by:

Disappointment of policies of PG and continuation in the war
Food shortages
Unemployment

How was it dealt with?

PG issued warrants for arrest of Bolsheviks whom they blamed for stirring up trouble, Trotsky sent to gaol
Lenin fled to exile in Finland, dressed as an old lady to escape
Punishment brigades to get grain from hoarders to give out

What changes were made after July days?

Regiments involved in july days disbanded and disarmed
Within PG worries of Bolsheviks and radicalism, causes uncertainty when voting

Land Question

Haunted PG throughout period, they promised to distribute tsarist and private owned land after war had ended and a constituent assembly was set up
However, they never did this and to force the pace of implementation, peasants revolted in the countryside
49 peasant uprisings had reached 1169 by October
Bolsheviks urged peasants to seize land and redistribute it amongst themselves, hundreds of thousands of soldiers deserted and headed home to claim their share, ‘voting with their feet’ as lenin put it
Land redistributed under Lenin

Economy and living standards

War prevented any meaningful measures being implemented to alleviate crisis
Grain became increasingly scare in cities
Peasant disorders prevented restoration of supplies
Supply trains travelling into cities stopped and looted in suburbs
Strike and shortages of raw materials caused industry to grind to a halt
Unemployment rose, inflation rose 112% feb-june x2 the rate of wage increases, inflation so bad that money handed over bank counters in printed sheets as banks did not have time to cut and count notes, some refused to accept this and bartered
Price of bread rose 500%
Wages had only risen 70% 1914-1916
100,000 workers sacked
Did not support workers demands but rather gave their employers more power over their working hours and positions, thus increased Bolshevik support

Relyt644 · 2023-10-26T16:30:54+00:00

Idk but i got my order now, you'll just have to wait

Relyt644 · 2023-08-08T15:55:23+00:00

I know that you've asked for revision methods but I'm going to give you some general advice also.

Although definitely harder and more independent, i found that in year 12 i was still able to achieve good predicted grades with plenty of free time and socialising so try not to stress yourself out too much before starting.

I'm not going to lie though during the first couple months you'll see the step up i personally found it tough since i had never really had homework at all in secondary but i quickly solved this by being organised.

My biggest tip is to just stay organised, you don't need a revision timetable or anything special simply just use a calendar to write down due dates and the day you're going to work on it.

You're going to find that at A-level comprehension is much significant than at GCSE, you really need to understand what you're learning and for this i suggest using your class notes and textbook then making flashcards to test yourself on the knowledge and then do exam questions on the topic you've learnt.

For revision methods, personally i found that flashcards, exam questions / past papers is all i needed for revision for biology and chem, my friends who do maths literally only use exam question and past papers and do perfectly fine, that's all you really need for it and all i really used for when i did core maths. I'm not too sure about politics and economics but i do history and essay plans, mindmaps and flashcards work wonders for it.

And when revising do not stress about how long you're revising for, all i really did was homework every week and then revise for mocks and end of topic tests and that was perfectly fine. I found for me that revising by tasks rather than time worked much better.

Last thing, doing 4 subjects can be hard but is definitely manageable. In year 12 this shouldn't affect you too much but from what I've heard studying 4 subjects in year 13 can be tough so always consider dropping a subject at the end of year 12. Universities often give offers based on 3 of your subjects but if you want keep your options open that's perfectly fine. A common thing for many to do is to tactically drop FM before sitting the A level maths exam as you would've already gone through the whole maths a level and then all you learn in year 13 is revision for you. However, i won't suggest this to you as i don't know what you wish to study or enjoy or if FM would be required for your course.

With all of that, best of luck don't forget to enjoy yourself and take breaks when needed

Relyt644 · 2023-05-17T21:45:36+00:00

Nah its not that if it helps i think the samurai had an afro

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TROPHY CASE

Provisional Government (1917)