U3 AOS1 Interpretations Flashcards
Smith = Long-term Economic Problems
‘the collapse of the autocracy was rooted in a crisis of modernisation’
History of CSPU= Bloody Sunday
the people’s ‘faith in the tsar was riddled with bullets that day’
Pipes= Impact of October Manifesto
‘in the end Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell’
Trotsky= Impact of October Manifesto
‘although there were a few broken ribs, tsarism came out of the experience of 1905 alive and well’
Trotsky= Limitations of the Duma
‘everything is given and nothing is given’
Pipes= Impact of WW1
the collapse of tsarism ‘was made likely by the deep-seated cultural and political flaws … that proved fatal under the pressure generated by WW1’
Wood= February Revolution
‘a spontaneous upsurge of politically radicalized masses’
Kerensky= Dual Authority
‘the Soviet had power without authority, the Provisional Government authority without power’
Taylor= Provisional Government
Taylor compared the PG’s unwillingness to implement reform to a chicken continuing to run around after having its head cut off - ‘no one knew how to change direction’
Rabinowitch= Lenin’s Impact
‘Tailoring the Bolshevik programme so that it would reflect popular aspirations was one of Lenin’s most important contributions’
Faulkner= July Days
‘a vast display of Bolshevik power’
Fitzpatrick= July Days
the Bolsheviks were ‘caught off balance’
Trotsky= Kornilov Affair
‘the army that rose against Kornilov was the army to be of the October Revolution’
Lynch= October 1917
‘the Bolsheviks were pushing against an already open door’
Adcock= Liberals
‘liberals are evidence of the tsarist regime creating its own enemies’
Figes= Tsar Nicholas
Nicholas was ‘the source of all the problems’
Service= Tsar Nicholas
‘it was the general situation’
Pares= Tsarina
‘ministers were selected by an ignorant, blind, hysterical woman’
Wood= Rasputin
‘the scandal that surrounded Rasputin’s name was merely a symptom’
Wade= Bolsheviks
‘became a political alternative for the disappointed and disenchanted’
Wood= Kerensky
‘the Bolsheviks made no secret of their preparations for insurrection but Kerensky seemed impotent to stop it’
McCauley= Kerensky
‘Kerensky single-handedly discredited… the Provisional Government’
Fitzpatrick= Dual Authority
‘Dual power’ proved an illusion, masking something like a power vacuum’
Pipes= Dual Authority
‘Russia was governed – or rather misgoverned – by a regime of dual power’
