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Reply 1
Meh. ^o) Is this your 100 years synoptic module? Because if it is, this isn't the kind of essays you'll be writing. But oh well.

Coup definitely, the next day nobody knew that Kerensky had fled at all and only a few shots were fired from the Kronstadt sailors. I can't think of anything about the arguments off the top of my head plus I'm tired, I'll have a look at my notes tomorrow.
Reply 2
No, it's the short one! But we apparently have to incorporate schools of thought.
Reply 3
Ah, yeah you do. I did Gladstone and Disraeli for that one and yeah you need the general opinions of various historians. Sorry, I can't really help then as I did Russia as synoptic and you learn everything very briefly.
Reply 4
What, according to you, would be the main causes of the 1917 Revolutions?

And what is your opinion on this website? I feel it's really concise.
Reply 5
Coup: this is a no-brainer. However, you have to make it interesting by showing how the Bolsheviks then went around convincing everybody it was a popular uprising. That's where the historiographical knowledge comes in. Check out Rethinking the Russian Revolutionby Edward Acton
Reply 6
Thankyouuu :smile:

Hahah, I think when we wrote that essay, I was the only person to say it was a popular uprising..never mind!
Reply 7
NickiM
Thankyouuu :smile:

Hahah, I think when we wrote that essay, I was the only person to say it was a popular uprising..never mind!


Did you justify?
Reply 8
It was executed as a coup which turned into a popular uprising. At the time, there was conflict between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, with the Bolsheviks believing in democratic centralism and the rise of a vanguard party to represent the interests of the country. The tsar was failing to perform, having recently lost the Russo-Japanese war of WWI. Thus, the tsar himself was a weak ruler and in a way contributed to the collapse of the state in 1917 and the rise of the Bolsheviks through the October Revolution.

If you qualified or supported this by defining popular uprising as led by a group of people consisting of the revolutionary Marxists in exile (Bolsheviks), then your point is arguable and very valid.
Reply 9
WokSz
Did you justify?

Yup :smile: