historian quotes - russia!

i'm doing my a2 coursework - How far do you agree that the economic position of the peasantry in Russia was stronger in the period between the Emancipation and the Revolution than it was under Lenin and Stalin and Khruschev? - and really need some quotes from contemporary historians regarding the peasant position under the different regimes... i can't seem to find ANY online and everything in my textbooks are all eye witness accounts.

if anyone can help me out it would be a-m-a-z-i-n-g. i'm on my final draft and just need to add in a couple more for marks.

Reply 1

Triplet1

13

PM Fadetoblackout if you need help asap

He is brill with history and always helps me out! :biggrin:

Reply 2

FadeToBlackout

15

Need more help with this question? FadeToBlackout can help, an online database of historical useless knowledge...

But unfortunately not really in this case. I did a similar question at A2 but my notes are 250 miles away, at home in the loft, and I can't remember anything! :frown:

Anyway, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpeasants.htm has some sources, such as 5- showing the industrial incapacity in the countryside (a symptom of poor economic life?) and some others, showing the hardships the peasants went through when working.

There's some images you could use as sources HERE

Also there's a few contemporaries HERE

Literally these are from a few seconds on Google; just search, use quotations, etc.

You could also look at Tolstoy, who documented (albeit in his fiction) the lives of the peasants, or Gogol (I think) in Dead Souls.

Reply 3

Triplet1

13

FadeToBlackout

Need more help with this question? FadeToBlackout can help, an online database of historical useless knowledge...

But unfortunately not really in this case. I did a similar question at A2 but my notes are 250 miles away, at home in the loft, and I can't remember anything! :frown:

Anyway, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpeasants.htm has some sources, such as 5- showing the industrial incapacity in the countryside (a symptom of poor economic life?) and some others, showing the hardships the peasants went through when working.

There's some images you could use as sources HERE

Also there's a few contemporaries HERE

Literally these are from a few seconds on Google; just search, use quotations, etc.

You could also look at Tolstoy, who documented (albeit in his fiction) the lives of the peasants, or Gogol (I think) in Dead Souls.

but you no everything. :love:

Reply 4

Socrates

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Richard Pipes is a good one. He has a few books on Russian history in that period.

Reply 5

Wenham

“There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.”

Reply 6

Feste

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen,
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine.
Doesn't that say it all?
(Er - its a song)

Reply 7

slothie

Edward Acton always has something to say. Otherwise you don't just have to use books, can be articles as well which are way easier to skim read and get quotations, my history department keeps loads of history magazines that had really useful stuff for my Russia coursework, and ask your teacher for names you can look up.

historian quotes - russia!

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