Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources 1 2 national minorities; the influence of Pobedonostsev, Witte; Russification and its consequences Impact on minorities and the role of Pobedonostsev and Witte. Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder 1 3 the Russo-Japanese War; Reasons for war (Bad harvests, depression in world economy, protests from minorities, Zemstvo Congress meeting of 1904) Events of the war and consequences of defeat. Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder 1 3 the causes, extent, nature and consequences of the 1905 Revolution; Events of Bloody Sunday and their consequences Increasing strikes Establishment of Union of unions Rising peasant violence Uniting of Tsarist opponents leading to installation of cabinet government Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder
1 4 Witte and the October Manifesto; Contents of the Manifesto and their consequence National reactions Government relationships with the Duma Role of Witte in government Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder 1 4 the Fundamental Law; Publication, contents and impact Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder 1 5 the Dumas; Operation and organisation of the Dumas Successes and failures Closure of first Dumas and election of second and third. Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder repression and reform under Stolypin; Stolypin’s views Land reforms Educational reforms Legal reforms Death of Stolypin and reactions Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder 1 6 the political social and economic situation in Russia in 1914. Industry and economics before WW1 Increased production and economy Boom economy Rising middle class size and importance Moves towards greater democracy Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder
Decree on Peace Decree on land Decree on nationalities Other decrees, including housing, marriage and diverse, titles, protection of Mother and Children’s, nationalisation of some factories. Suppression of opposition Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 3 15 Civil War, White forces, foreign intervention, Red Army, ‘war communism’, reasons for Bolshevik victory/White defeat; Collapse of the Russian empire Political opposition Allied opposition Breakdown of law and order Food requisitioning The events of the civil war War with SRs War with Whites War with the Greens Reasons for Bolshevik victory and White defeat, including the Red Army, Munitions and Manpower, commitment to the cause, the red terror, control of railway centres, Trotsky’ leaderships, Allied help, white divisions, lack of lack of commitment War communism Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann Russian Revolution, Culpin, Hodder
The Rule of Stalin 4 19 Character and abilities of Stalin; Character and abilities of Stalin Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann 4 20 rivalries and divisions in the Bolshevik party, Trotsky, Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev; Stalin’s tactics and victory, ‘socialism in one country’ v ‘permanent revolution’; The Triumvirate Lenin’s wishes Relationship between Lenin and Stalin Lenin’s funeral Nature of rule in Russia in 1924 Nature and position of the contenders for power Left and Right Communists Defeat of Trotsky Defeat of the left Defeat of the right Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann 4 21 consolidation of power, propaganda and ‘Cult of Personality’, growth of police state (OGPU, NKVD, purges and gulags); Methods of maintaining power The terror Purges of membership Opposition to Stalin and his responses Kirov The Ezhovschina Growth of police state Life in the gulags Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann
4 22 economic policies in the 1930s, agriculture, kulaks, voluntary and forced collectivisation, mechanisation; Building socialism in the countryside Economic policies Kulaks Achievement of collectivisation and the process by which it was achieved Mechanisation Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann 4 23 industrialisation, Gosplan, first two Five Year Plans; Plans for industrial Russia The First Five year plans and its results Ways of achieving them The Second Five Year plan and its results Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann 4 24 economic, social and political effects of Collectivisation and Five Year Plans. How successful were the plans. Were people better off in the 1930s? Russia 1894-1941, Lynch, Hodder Russia 1848-1917, Bromley, Heinemann