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Period Studies (Unit 3)
Quick questions on Russia 1881 to 1991: tsarism, revolution, Stalinism and Soviet collapse - WJEC A-Level History
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The decisive variable separating survival in 1905 from collapse in 1917 was the impact of total war on the loyalty of the army. In 1905 the regime, though shaken by Bloody Sunday and defeat by Japan, retained an army that remained largely obedient, so it could repress the Moscow rising while the October Manifesto peeled the liberals away from the revolutionaries. By February 1917 that foundation had crumbled: three years of war had killed or maimed millions, supply had broken down so that Petrograd lacked bread and fuel, and the Petrograd garrison, ordered to fire on demonstrators, mutinied instead.
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Why did tsarism survive 1905 but not 1917? [2 marks]
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What were Gorbachev's two key reforms? [2 marks]
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To what extent was the First World War the main reason tsarism collapsed in 1917? [20 marks]
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