support among both peasants and townspeople‚ but were divided between anarchists and revolutionaries. The Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at the 1903 Congress‚ while the Liberals did not establish distinctive parties until after the 1905 Revolution. A simple description of some of the revolutionary parties will be marked within Levels 1 and 2‚ and progression will depend on the range and depth of relevant material. Responses at Level 3 will begin to address causation but may include
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How far was political opposition to the Tsar divided in their aims and methods‚ 1881-1905? Political opponents of the Tsar were clearly divided in their aims and methods‚ and consequentially may have contributed to the survival of Tsarist Russia. The main parties were the Social democrats (Bolsheviks and Mensheviks)‚ Social Revolutionaries and Liberals (Octobrists and Kadets). Each of these radical parties had their own separate beliefs on what Russia needed and each aimed for some sort of change
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How far do you agree that the Russo-Jap war was the main cause of the 1905 revolution? There were many factors that contributed to the 1905 revolution in Russia. They range from political opposition groups such as the Bolsheviks and the social revolutionaries‚ to the failure to reform. The Russo-Jap war of 1905 acted as the trigger to the revolution. However many factors such as increasing political discontent within the cities and countryside were also important and these issues can be linked back
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underlying causes of the 1905 revolution in Russia were not political. Whatever the revolutionaries wanted‚ it was not the overthrow of the Tsar.’ How far do you agree with this claim? This essay will assess the claim that the underlying causes of the Russian revolution of 1905 were not political and the revolutionaries did not intend to overthrow the Tsar. The 1905 Russian revolution was caused by a number of different factors. The Russo-Japanese War and the Red Sunday were some of them. The
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How far were the divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of the Tsarist rule in the years 1881-1905? In the years 1881-1905 the Tsarist regime was facing large amounts of opposition from many people. The peasants and lower classes caused uprisings‚ their aims to remove the Tsar from power‚ while some educated middle class went on strike in an attempt to reform the regime. Many people were revolting and 3 main political groups emerged. The divides in these political groups were
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How effectively did Nicholas II deal with the problems facing Russia in the period 1894 – 1905? It is one of the ironies of Russian history that‚ at a time when the nation most needed a tsar of strength and imagination‚ it was a man of weakness and limited outlook who came to the throne. Nicholas II was the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894‚ he had very little experience of government. There are two main aspects to Nicholas’ II’s reign; firstly the problems he
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June 30th‚ 1940 changed the lives of everyone living on Guernsey. During World War II the Germans occupied the Channel Islands‚ Guernsey included. My book‚ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society‚ is an excellent example of historical fiction for three reasons‚ it tells about the occupation of the Channel Islands‚ how the islanders had to adapt their life during the occupation‚ and how their lives were changed because the occupation. “Late in the afternoon of June 28‚ 1940‚ six Heinkel bombers
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As the title states‚ this poem is about Robert Hayden remembering “Those Winter Sundays.” The primary focus of this poem is the relationship between father and son. In particular‚ the way his father communicates his love through actions instead of words. Specifically‚ his father built early morning fires that drove out the cold and polished his good church shoes. In “Those Winter Sundays”‚ Robert Hayden uses strong imagery and sound to describe his father‚ and how he grew from lacking respect for
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The Liberals wished to solve the Irish problem to benefit the Irish people whereas the Conservatives attempted to solve the Irish Problem to fulfil their own aims and to bluster their Irish Nationalist support. Both parties had little success though the conservatives had more than the Liberals as they had a more practical approach. As an attempt to solve the Irish problem‚ Gladstone implemented the Second Land Reform in 1881‚ where in which he gave the Irish farmers most of the rights and securities
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Leading up to the Russian Revolution in 1905‚ there were a series of decisions and accidents‚ signs of discontentment amongst the poor and also a tension increase between Russia and Japan. It was ultimately these problems which lead to the Revolution and the end of Tsar Nicolas II’s regime. But why did this political opposition grow towards Nicolas II? In 1985‚ Russia had persuaded Japan to give up Port Arthur and the Liaotung Peninsula to her. There were agreements that followed with China which
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