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Stalin’s industrial policy – Podcast.
If you click here you will get to the excellent #VersusHistory website to hear historians discuss and debate. Upper Sixth historians should click here to get to a very sharp podcast analysis of Soviet industrial policy. Mr Kydd.
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That double variable question from revision – “The only significant change in government in 1917 is that Russia went from being governed by ineffective autocrats to effective ones ?
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From today’s extra lesson. Transformed plan.
Thanks again for coming. We are up to date…
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From yesterday’s revision session – Essay plan “War has more impact than revolutions on the government of Russia in the period 1855 – 1964 – discuss”
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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – the emancipation of the serfs.
If you click here you will get to last night’s edition of In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1861 declaration by Tsar Alexander II that serfs were now legally free of their landlords. It … Continue reading
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Materials from today’s revision conference
First of all, can I take this opportunity to thank you all for your excellent approach to what was a packed day. It was great to meet you, and I hope very much that it has set up your Easter … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to watch – Khrushchev documentaries
Those Khrushchev documentaries as promised. Robert Conquest. (20mins) The Secret Speech and reaction ( 2mins and 10mins) After Stalin (Cold War series – excellent on the take over of Eastern Europe) American documentary
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Enrichment – something to watch – In the shadow of Red October (BBC)
A nice bit of enrichment for those of you studying the Russia course. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg travelled across Russia to find out what Russians today think about the October Revolution. See what you think. Mr Kydd.
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