interpretations Flashcards
Bloody Sunday
CPSU - the peoples “faith in the Tsar was riddled with bullets”
October Manifesto
Pipes - “gained nothing more than a breathing spell”
WWI impact
Pipes - collapse of tsarism “proved fatal under the pressure generated by ww1”
Dual Authority
Kerensky - “soviet had power without authority, the Provisional Government authority without power”
April Thesis
Rabinowitch - “tailoring the Bolshevik program”
October 1917
Lynch - Bolsheviks were “pushing an already open door”
Bolshevik ruling
Lynch - “gave little thought to how things would be organised”
Civil war and red terror
Figes “nothing did more to shape the ruling attitudes of the Bolsheviks”
Kronstadt Revolt
Figes - “proof that to Bolsheviks had turned into tyrants”
1921 Famine
Figes - “single biggest killer of these years”
Yuan Shikai
Zarrow - “ruled as a military dictator”
Jiangxi Soviet
Davin - “Social labratory”
GMD
Ryan - the GMD “did nothing to tackle China’s deep roooted problems”
Long March
Snow - “biggest armed propoganda in history”
Mao’s Legacy in the Cultural Revolution
Lifton - “wanted to acheive revolutionary immortality”
Mao in 7000 cadres conferance (his wanning influence)
Mao - “treated like a dead ancestor”
Mao on the Cultural Revolution
Mao - “reactionaries don’t fall down unless you hit them hard”
Russia in WW1
Grand Duke Nicholai - govt “now in chaos”
French Ambassador - “The Russian Embassy was run by lunatics”
Myth about Rasputin’s influence
Figes - “All revolutions are in part based on myth”
Aims of the Northern Expedition
Jiang - “To protect the wealthfare of the people we must overthrow all warlords and wipe out reactionary power”
Shanghai Massacre
Miesner - “a bloodbath that virtually destroyed.. the CCP”
Battle of Luding Bridge
Chang and Halliday - “centre of the Long March myth”
