interpretations

Question 1

Bloody Sunday

Answer 1

CPSU - the peoples “faith in the Tsar was riddled with bullets”

Question 2

October Manifesto

Answer 2

Pipes - “gained nothing more than a breathing spell”

Question 3

WWI impact

Answer 3

Pipes - collapse of tsarism “proved fatal under the pressure generated by ww1”

Question 4

Dual Authority

Answer 4

Kerensky - “soviet had power without authority, the Provisional Government authority without power”

Question 5

April Thesis

Answer 5

Rabinowitch - “tailoring the Bolshevik program”

Question 6

October 1917

Answer 6

Lynch - Bolsheviks were “pushing an already open door”

Question 7

Bolshevik ruling

Answer 7

Lynch - “gave little thought to how things would be organised”

Question 8

Civil war and red terror

Answer 8

Figes “nothing did more to shape the ruling attitudes of the Bolsheviks”

Question 9

Kronstadt Revolt

Answer 9

Figes - “proof that to Bolsheviks had turned into tyrants”

Question 10

1921 Famine

Answer 10

Figes - “single biggest killer of these years”

Question 11

Yuan Shikai

Answer 11

Zarrow - “ruled as a military dictator”

Question 12

Jiangxi Soviet

Answer 12

Davin - “Social labratory”

Question 13

GMD

Answer 13

Ryan - the GMD “did nothing to tackle China’s deep roooted problems”

Question 14

Long March

Answer 14

Snow - “biggest armed propoganda in history”

Question 15

Mao’s Legacy in the Cultural Revolution

Answer 15

Lifton - “wanted to acheive revolutionary immortality”

Question 16

Mao in 7000 cadres conferance (his wanning influence)

Answer 16

Mao - “treated like a dead ancestor”

Question 17

Mao on the Cultural Revolution

Answer 17

Mao - “reactionaries don’t fall down unless you hit them hard”

Question 18

Russia in WW1

Answer 18

Grand Duke Nicholai - govt “now in chaos”
French Ambassador - “The Russian Embassy was run by lunatics”

Question 19

Myth about Rasputin’s influence

Answer 19

Figes - “All revolutions are in part based on myth”

Question 20

Aims of the Northern Expedition

Answer 20

Jiang - “To protect the wealthfare of the people we must overthrow all warlords and wipe out reactionary power”

Question 21

Shanghai Massacre

Answer 21

Miesner - “a bloodbath that virtually destroyed.. the CCP”

Question 22

Battle of Luding Bridge

Answer 22

Chang and Halliday - “centre of the Long March myth”