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The starter sentence we drew up this period…

The continuing need to modernise first the Army, and then to keep autocracy, created a need to reform other lateral aspects of Russian life, overall these reforms were exploitative.

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An essay plan and the fall of the Tsars

An interesting video on the pressures on the regime in the immediate run up to the revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-abdication-of-tsar-nicholas-ii-in-1917/5672.html With my group we’ve started to plan the essay. Below is our first thought – we’ll modify this on monday and post … Continue reading

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