AOS1 · knowledge
Events and conditions
Explain how institutional weakness, inequality, war, political crises, and the events of 1917 contributed to revolution.
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Ideas
Examine autocracy, liberal reform, Marxism, and Marxism-Leninism as challenges to the existing order.
AOS1 · knowledge
Individuals
Evaluate Nicholas II, Alexandra, Stolypin, Rasputin, Kerensky, Lenin, and Trotsky.
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Popular movements and parties
Evaluate workers, peasants, mutineers, Socialist Revolutionaries, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Octobrists, and Kadets.
AOS1 · skill
Analyse causes
Distinguish long-term causes, short-term triggers, catalysts, and their relative influence.
AOS1 · skill
Evaluate significance
Judge the historical significance of events, ideas, individuals, and popular movements.
AOS2 · knowledge
Challenges and consolidation
Examine Sovnarkom’s early problems, the Constituent Assembly, Brest-Litovsk, Civil War, terror, War Communism, and Kronstadt.
AOS2 · knowledge
Change and compromise
Examine decrees, the Cheka, economic policies, famine, education, culture, and women’s rights.
AOS2 · knowledge
Individuals
Evaluate Lenin, Trotsky, Dzerzhinsky, and Kollontai.
AOS2 · knowledge
Experiences of social groups
Compare the experiences of nobles, peasants, workers, the bourgeoisie, and women.
AOS2 · skill
Continuity and change
Evaluate the extent of continuity and change across Russian society from 1896 to 1927.
AOS2 · skill
Analyse consequences
Explain intended and unintended political, social, economic, and cultural consequences.