A-level History Study Group 2023-2024

Hey! Same here with American dream but I also do Tudors, do you have any recommendations for USA resources? I can barely find any!

Hello, I might help with that. What type of resources you need?

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Hey,

I do edexcel history

Currently enjoying America boom, bust and recovery:1920-1955

I’m really struggling with starting my coursework as my teacher has disappeared for a good month now 😑. I’m doing Russia revolution. I think the question is if the revolution was a coup d’etat or a revolution. Help please.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWWz1K9qftXb5adJQQ7hNOlpu7GZsN4wERub_JyP3uc/edit?usp=sharing

I answered that exact question with the above essay.

First up.....definitions. Something is typically referred to as a coup if there is a transfer of power, usually violenty, by one person or group to another, invariably done very quickly......and here's the crucial bit.....the power grab lacks both obvious mass appeal and also, society doesn't really change very much. Think plenty of African countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

In contrast a revolution implies 2 things.......mass popular appeal (but not always.....see below), but a revolution must involve a radical change in the country in some form. The French Revolution of 1789 was deemed a revolution because of how it radically changed all aspects of society. Do you think the Bolsheviks did the same? Hint......yes, big time !

Feel free to 'borrow' some ideas but to get top grades, try to focus some of your essay on the debate between historians. Those from the West (led by the likes of Richard Pipes) argued it was a coup i.e. little popular support. Russian historians argued it was very much a revolution i.e. it had huge popular support in the same way as the Sans-Culotte provided the physical muscle of the French Revolution, as there were millions of ordinary Russians willing the Bolsheviks on. The truth is probably somewhere in between as I suggest in the essay. Context is also important......during the cold war, Western historians tried to delegitimise the Soviet regime saying it never had any popular support from day 1 i.e. it was illegitimate, but Russian historians somewhat fearful of ending up in the Gulag, argued precisely the opposite so both sides had some bias. But there were plenty of Marxist historians in the West like Ronald Suny who argued it did have plenty of popular support, but as a Marxist you would expect him to push that line.

But......here's a super nuanced answer you could push. It was both !

It was a coup in the sense it had some popular support but not much (there was no obvious rejoicing the next day and the fact a civil war happened shortly after suggests many disliked the Bolsheviks) but what they did was actually revolutionary. So even with little popular suport (the Bolsheviks did actually have quite a bit in Moscow and Petrograd but not in the countryside which was where the majority of the people were) it could still meet the defintion of revolution providing the party coming to power radically changed society (that's really what a revolution is):





The Bolsheviks did all 4 in spades (point 4 - they managed to change how people thought by convincing millions that extreme brutality was entirely justified)........so they were absolutely revolutionary even if, during their power grab, they lacked widespread popular support.

and you definitely want to use historical comparisons......Paris, 1789 is a good one !

If you need more ideas, just ask.

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Hi,I'm with Edexcel.Im struggling with writing essays,mostly introduction and conclusion.I would like some help with the structure of the intro and conclusionso I can apply it to every question.

Hey I am busy self studying CIE International Option History. I'm aiming for an A* but I don't know how much detail there should be for my summaries. If my textbook is 250 pages should I have closer to 50 or a 100 pages of notes? Any resources for International Option would also be welcome!

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