Essay themes- Tsar & Bolsheviks

Question 1

Why did the Tsarist System survive for so long?

Answer 1

Divisions/weakness of opposition
Use of Repression
Strengths of Tsarist Regimes

Question 2

How far did the system change (and remain the same) up until 1914?

Answer 2

Agriculture
Industry
Politicards

Question 3

Why was there a revolution in 1905?

Answer 3

Long term political factors
Long term social and economic factors
Short term factors:trade recession from 1900, Russo-Japanese War and Bloody Sunday

Question 4

Why did the Tsar survive in 1905 but not in 1917?

Why he survived in 1905

Answer 4

Concession
Repression
Continues Support of key groups

Question 5

Why did the Tsar survive in 1905 but not in 1917?

Why he fell in 1917

Answer 5

Ongoing political failures
Effects of war
Loss of support of key groups

Question 6

Why were there 2 revolutions in 1917?

Causes of Feb

Answer 6

Long term problems
Role of War
Loss of support of key groups

Question 7

Why were there 2 revolutions in 1917?

Causes of Oct

Answer 7

Failure of Provisional Government to tackle problems
Role of war
Role of Lenin and Trotsky

Question 8

Why was there a revolution in 1917?

Answer 8

Failure of Provisional Government to tackle problems
Role of war
Role of Lenin and Trotsky

Question 9

Why did the Bolsheviks hold on to power from 1917-1924?

Answer 9

Weakness of their opponents
Use of repression and violence (Terror)
Role of individuals