Teaching Activities

 

UNIT 1H TSARIST RUSSIA

1. Analysing political groups: for each of the five events in the table below, note down how each of the five political groups on the left of the table would have responded.

   	The Tsar’s October Manifesto	Creation of the First Duma	Stolypin’s agricultural reforms	The outbreak of The First World War	Creation of the Provisional Government
   Kadets
   Octobrists
   SRs
   Bolsheviks
   Mensheviks

2. For each of the two revolutions of 1917, list up to 10 causes (short or long term) and divide your reasons into three main headings: political, economic and social.

Then identify at least three similarities between the two revolutions, and three differences.