AS OCR History: From Autocracy to Communism (Russia from 1894-1941)

1894-1905 seriousness of opposition, and 1905-1914 I wish I'd done the consolidation of power rather than the seriousness of opposition though

I was deciding between those two as well. In the end, due to how much more knowledge I had on Stalin's use of terror, propaganda, and his cult, over that of the work of Sergei Witte and 1894-1905, I decided to do the consolidation.

Right lads I've got a mock tomorrow and I know the 10 marker is going to be Stolypin vs Witte and the 20 markers is going to be about the stability of the tsarist regime from 1905- 1914 and I do not have a scooby doo what is going on

Right lads I've got a mock tomorrow and I know the 10 marker is going to be Stolypin vs Witte and the 20 markers is going to be about the stability of the tsarist regime from 1905- 1914 and I do not have a scooby doo what is going on

That's a different unit, there are no 10 and 20 matk questions in this spec

Hi, im doing this exam as a retake this year, do you remember the questions that came up last year because I cant find them on the OCR website and also do you have any predictions for what may come up this year?

Thanks in advance

What kind of questions were that

-1905 and NII power
-Terror most important factor for bolshevik consolidation of power
-stalin rise to power

1921-24 consolidation of power is way too small of a topic for a 50 marker. Never asked before either.

I agree, I'd revised Lenin and the Bolshevik consolidation of power but a lot of it was 1918 so I didn't have enough knowledge to do it... Loved the Power Struggle question though

Yeah, that question was alright, Did you do the 1905 question too?

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how to organise it so it probably wasn't the best essay ever though

Same, I think everyone would be in a similar boat - it wasn't a question asked before.

All three of them haven't been asked before.

Where were you Civil War and October Revolution!!??
They haven't asked a power struggle one since the first exam so I kind of naively negoected it in terms of revision. Had to answer it though by process of elimination, what the he'll was that second question and how were we meant to write an essay on it? Smashed the 1905 one although may have gone slightly off topic - didn't really know how to include Stolypins land reforms etc but I mentioned it saying that he needed them to restore his absolute authority in the countryside.

Where were you Civil War and October Revolution!!??
They haven't asked a power struggle one since the first exam so I kind of naively negoected it in terms of revision. Had to answer it though by process of elimination, what the he'll was that second question and how were we meant to write an essay on it? Smashed the 1905 one although may have gone slightly off topic - didn't really know how to include Stolypins land reforms etc but I mentioned it saying that he needed them to restore his absolute authority in the countryside.

Luckily I revised rise to power just before the exam, but still the 'division and weakness' was slightly awkward to tackle. The bastards didn't include 1917 or the Civil War which I thought was certain to pop up. The 1905 one got me, not because I didn't know the material, but because I didn't know how to organise my essay. In the end I made a cluster**** of mismatching paragraphs. I gave a point about how it conceded some political authority, but in actual fact, the political freedoms offered in manifesto weren't adhered to, and that the Duma was nullified with fundamental laws/bicameralism. Also talked a bit about Stolypin...

Got 70/100 last year on this, definitely haven't improved imo.