Lenin and the Russian RevolutionA study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin, and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination by concentrating on analysis and historians' interpretations of the material covered in the AS section. There are practice questions and hints and tips on what makes a good answer. |
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Table des matières
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How and why were the Bolsheviks able to seize | 111 |
What direction did Bolshevik ideology and tactics | 118 |
To what extent did practical difficulties stop | 125 |
What was the nature of the Bolshevik state? | 131 |
How important was the role of Lenin? | 144 |
How and why did Stalin manage to secure | 155 |
A2 Assessment | 167 |
Bibliography | 173 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
able Alexandra approach autocracy became Bolshevik Party Bolshevik regime Bolshevik Revolution Bolshevik rule bourgeoisie Bukharin bureaucracy capitalism capitalist Cheka Civil collapse Communism Communist Party Constituent Assembly culture debate defeat Dictatorship Duma E. H. Carr economic policy elected ensure evidence factors February Revolution forces glasnost historians ideas ideology impact important industrial workers industrialisation influence Kamenev Kerensky KEY TERM Kornilov Kronstadt Kronstadt Mutiny land leader leadership Left Lenin Liberal school Marx Marxist Mensheviks Nepmen Nicholas October Manifesto October Revolution opposition organisation party members peasantry personality Petrograd Politburo political position production proletariat Provisional Government question Rasputin Red Army result Revisionist revolutionary groups rise of Stalin Russian Revolution secret police seen seize power social socialist sources Soviet Union survival terror threat Treaty Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Trotsky Trotsky's Tsar Tsar's Tsarist regime unrest USSR War Communism workers and peasants World Zinoviev
Fréquemment cités
Page 86 - Either the Russian Revolution will create a revolutionary movement in Europe, or the European powers will destroy the Russian...
Page 36 - ... republic of the philosophers. The reader must put up with this hocus-pocus for the sake of the gigantic individual who overshadows it. Trotsky himself used to claim that history was on his side. When he came to the Congress of Soviets fresh from the conquest of power, he called to the protesting Mensheviks: 'You have played out your role. Go where you belong: to the dustheap of history.

