DP History Questionbank

Description

This section deals with the decline of imperial power in Tsarist Russia and the emergence of the Soviet State. It requires examination and consideration of the social, economic and political factors that inaugurated and accelerated the process of decline. Attempts at domestic reform and the extent to which these hastened or hindered decline should be studied, together with the impact of war and foreign entanglements.

• Alexander II (1855‑81): emancipation of the serfs; military, legal, educational, local government reforms; later reaction

• Policies of Alexander III (1881‑94) and Nicholas II (1895‑1917): backwardness and attempts at modernization; nature of tsardom; growth of opposition movements

• Significance of the Russo-Japanese War; 1905 Revolution; Stolypin and the Duma; the impact of the First World War (1914‑18) on Russia

• 1917 Revolutions: February/March Revolution; Provisional Government and Dual Power (Soviets); October/November Bolshevik Revolution; Lenin and Trotsky

• Lenin’s Russia (1917‑24): consolidation of new Soviet state; Civil War; War Communism; NEP; terror and coercion; foreign relations

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.9:

  Evaluate the economic and political impact of the domestic policies of Nicholas II between 1894 and 1914.

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.10:

  “The political and military weaknesses of the Whites led to Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.” Discuss.