OCR A2 History: Russia and its Rulers 1855-1964 discussion thread 10 June

why for turning point questions do you not answer with 3 paragraphs; economic, social and political impacts? i have seen that you all recommned taking a turning point at a time and analysing them.
With 3 main paragraphs you can compare/contrast each turning point in each paragraph and are synoptic throughout.
also you avoid doing it chronologically and the comparison is easier.
for example if your turning points are octrober 1917 revolution and you see stalin in the 1930's as another turning point you can do an economic paragrpah easily - concluding that stalin had a greater impact as 1917 was mainly a politcial revolution

thanks for answers in advance

Well, thats largely because if I analyse the turning-points all individually, It allows me to-give a comparative judgement at-the end of each turning-point taking in-to account all the economic, social and political factors and placing them against all the economic, social and political factors in-the turning-point in-question - which I would have already analysed first in-this question ie. I can compare everything about that turning-point after my second paragraph. Also, the turning-point questions often aren't asking you whether one-particular turning-point had a more significant 'economic' impact than the-rest for example, it wants you to judge whether it had a significant impact on Russian government as a whole ie. taking in-to account all-factors. However, you could certainly do-it that way if you wanted, I wouldn't recommend it though & there is certainly nothing chronological about the method that I/others have suggested.

i understand that most the questions were asking about impact on russian government as a whole and if you consider political, social and economic impacts that covers the majority of factors.

think i will have a go at doing similar questions using the differing structure

Yes, but by-using that structure you are going to-be assessing those factors individually(economic, social & political) against the turning-point in-question, where as with the other-structure your are going to-be assessing them collectively(economic, social & political) & placing them collectively against the turning-point in-question ie. answering the question more effectively.

ok cheers
for the turning point questions how many turning points are you analysing?

A turning point question came up in Jan 11, do we really think its going to come up again?

A turning point question came up in Jan 11, do we really think its going to come up again?

Tom you're incredible! I'd just like to say that I shared these threads with my history class, and we've spent whole lessons talking about them. One girl printed off posts relevant to our course and photocopied them for everyone. Our teacher seemed quite peeved actually that we were getting so much inspiration from someone other than her. XD

Tom you're incredible! I'd just like to say that I shared these threads with my history class, and we've spent whole lessons talking about them. One girl printed off posts relevant to our course and photocopied them for everyone. Our teacher seemed quite peeved actually that we were getting so much inspiration from someone other than her. XD

Yes, Tom is is like a Wunderwaffe for revising this exam! ...snook some History in-there!...pointless and sad. Not-really History though just German for 'wonder-weapon'! Tom's thread URL: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1500448 in-case you don't know.

You've been playing too much Nazi Zombies

Tom

...hehehe...RAY-GUN! XD

Whow, Thanks That's one of the best compliments (related to TSR )I've received! I'm glad they were of help to not just you but your whole class . It's made even better by the fact i do want to become a history teacher (as boring as that sounds :P) cheers Sam you've kinda made my day (as sad as this sounds :P)

Tom

I'm sure you'll be a superb history teacher Tom.....more-compliments!

I thought so only a CoD player knows what a Wunder-waffe is haha,

Tom

Hmmm, I also know allot about-it after I watched a documentary on-it...researched it-more, doing History at uni. Sarin-gas, Sun-gun, Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, V3 rockets, Messerschmitt, possibly Nazi UFOs...its just interesting in-the sense of how insanely brilliant the Nazi-scientists were(the USA used them after-all), they did create the first jet-engine. Of-course however, there were many like Mengele who were very-evil.

I'm currently in my first year of history at Uni. Unfortunately we don't do anything as bizarre as this, but I've seen my fair share of documentaries on the history channels on this. Very creative in certain areas, horrific in others. I think i've studied Nazi Germany at every stage of history, and Russia for only the past three. I think this is why I prefer Russia as they are not investigated and reviewed half as much as Germany,

Tom