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Historical Interpretations/Perspectives Revised Flashcards

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France - Overview

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“Privilege was the hallmark of a country without uniform laws or institutions.”
-William Doyle

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France - Louis’ Power

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“Louis inherited a power too contested to remain an absolute monarch … but was too weak to lead his kingdom towards something else.”
-Francois Furet

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France - Calling of the Estates-General

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“No one could remember a time where the government had consulted the people, and no one suspected that such a time would come again.”
-JM Thompson

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France - National Assembly Establishment

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“The establishment of [The National Assembly] had facilitated the momentus transfer of popular sovereingty from the King to the Nation.”
-Michael Adock

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France - Peasant’s Lack of Freedom

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“Although the peasants had been freed from the feudal system, they did not all benefit equally from their new liberty.”
-Alfred Soboul

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France - DORMAC

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“[DORMAC] was the establishment of the revolutionary principles of a new golden age.”
-Peter McPhee

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France - Clergy

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“The clergy were to suffer even more cataclysmically than the nobility.”
-William Doyle

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France - CCC

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“As a result of [the CCC], the Catholic Church came to be associated with the counter-revolution … which the revolution wished to eradicate.”
-Caroline C. Ford

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France - Legislative Assembly

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“The [Legislative] Assembly was thus made the master of the state, and the Assembly was the French bourgeoisie.”
-Georges Lefebvre

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France - War with Austria

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“The war was one of the major turning points of the revolutionary period and would dominate the history of France.”
-Peter McPhee

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France - September Massacres / Overall Violence

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“Do you want a revolution without a revolution?”
-Maxemillien Robespierre

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France - The King’s Execution

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“Regicide meant there would be no compromise, no going back.”
-William Doyle

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France - Counter Revolution in the Vendee

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“[Frenchmen on both sides] turning this fury and rage against one another … ultimately forgetting they were humans.”
-Local Priest

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France - The Terror

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“The state policy duringg [the Terror] used institutionalised violence and threat of violence.”
-Timothy Tackett

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Russia - The Russo-Japanese War

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“The Japanese are infidels. The might of Holy Russia will crush them.”
-Tsar Nicholas II

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Russia - Bloody Sunday

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“There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar.”
-Father Georgi Gapon

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Russia - The Dumas

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“[The Dumas] quickly turned acrimonious, condemning the first experiment in popular government to failure.”
-Abraham Asche

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Russia - The Fundamental Laws

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“We have been given a constitution, but absolutism remains.”
-Leon Trotsky

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Russia - World War One

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“War is the midwife of every society pregnant with a new one.”
-Friederich Engels

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Russia - The February Revolution

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“This is a hooligan movement, young people run and shout that there is no brad, simply to create excitement, along with workers who prevent others from working.”
-Tsarina Alexandra

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Russia - The Power of the Provisional Government

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“The provisional government does not possess any real power.”
-Alexander Guchkov (former Duma chairman)

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Russia - Lenin’s April Thesis

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“Our tactics: absolute distrust, no support for the Provisional Government.”
-Vladimir Lenin

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Russia - The July Days

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“The flight of the shepherd [Lenin] could not but deliver a heavy blow to the sheep.”
-Richard Pipes

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Russia - The Kornilov Affair

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“It’s time to hang the German supporters and spies, with Lenin at their head, and to disperse the Soviets!”
-General Lavr Kornilov

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Russia - The October Revolution

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“History will never forgive us if we do not take power now.”
-Vladimir Lenin

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Russia - The New Decrees

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“We are going to found a power which will have no other aim but to satisfy the needs of the soldiers, workers and peasants.”
-Leon Trotsky

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Russia - The Dissolution of the CA / Violence of the Bolshevik Regime

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“The machine gun became for them [the Bolsheviks] the principal instrument of political persuasion.”
-Richard Pipes

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Russia - The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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“It was a device … to trade space for time … Yet the space they yielded was enormous.”
-Richard J Crampton

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Russia - Civil War / Red Terror

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“Bolshevik terror crept out of European Russia like a biblical pestilence … Arbitrary arrests, mass shootings, torture and imprisonment were an integral element of Bolshevik policy long before anti-Bolshevik armies gathered.”
-Jamie Bisher

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Russia - White Terror

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“Anti-Bolshevik forces killed 100 for every one person killed by the Bolsheviks.” - William S Graves, American Major General

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Russia - The Cheka

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“The sooner we get rid of the bourgeoisie, the sooner we will reach socialism.” - Felix Dzerzhinsky

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Russia - Revolution as a Military Campaign

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“Revolution was not like an election campaign in which the party that gains a majority gains the upper hand; rather it was like a military campaign in which the side that can mobilise the greatest physical strength in the most sensitive places wins the day.” - Ron Suny

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Russia - War Communism

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“… the regime followed a rather inconsistent economic policy for the rest of 1917, especially on workers’ supervision and nationalisation.” - Rex Wade

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Russia - 1921 Famine

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“In the market, among rough huckstresses swearing at each other, one heard threats to make sausages of a person.” - Russian Aid Worker

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Russia - Women’s Rights

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“No more inequality within the family, the woman in the communist city no longer depends on her husband but her work.” - Alexandra Kollontai

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