The Russian Revolution: Historiography, source analysis and
short answer
Dr Catherine HartBrighton Grammar School
There are THREE key resources you need to access in relation to this session:
1. This PPT (avail via Google Drive for
immediate access and dropbox)
2. Hardcopy Booklet
3. Shared resource folder on Dropbox – email
me to access (www.dropbox.com)
Short answer
Revolution 1 Revolution 2
Section A: Two short answer questions (AOS 1)
Section B: “Text” Analysis (AOS 1)
Section A: “Text” Analysis (AOS 2)
Section B: Essay(AOS 2)
What is historiography?What is it NOT? Why study historiography?
Historiography
History is a ‘living’ subjectHistory is full of diversity
Historians disagree
http://alphahistory.com/vcehistory/about-historiography/
Historiography in Exam
Revolution 1 Revolution 2
Section A: Two short answer questions (AOS 1)
Section B: “Text” Analysis (AOS 1)
Section A: “Text” Analysis (AOS 2)
Section B: Essay(AOS 2)
Section A Q3d
Section B Q1d
Historiography• Start with historiography – definition and explanations• The key schools and their main arguments about the
origins of the outbreak of Revolution (Booklet p11-16)• Significant historians within each period • Individual historians with their specific interpretations• See pp143-150 Study Design for main historians
DISCUSSION: Which historians do you use? Why?
Historiography links
http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-revolution-historiography/
Orlando Figes Sheila Fitzpatrick Richard Pipes John Reed Robert Service Adam Ulam Dmitri Volkogonov
See Booklet
Great links
• http://mcvcehistory.wikispaces.com/Unit+4+Revolutions+Russia
• http://mcvcehistory.wikispaces.com/Unit+4+Revolutions+Russia
• http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-revolution-historiography/
Old regime images often show the inequity (above) and the corruption (right) of the tsarist regime. More idealist images show the determined strength of the working people (left)
Old Regime
Old Regime
Many images focus on the short-comings and the poor political leadership of the tsar including the Russo-Japanese War (top) or his pogroms against Jews (right)
Bolshevik imagesBolshevik images are often idealistic about the new society, portraying their leaders and the proletariat as giants or kindly paternalists
"Lenin proclaims Soviet power" by Vladimir Serov, 1947
The Russian Tsars at home (1916)
Source analysis scaffolds
COMA – content, origin, motivation, audience
OPVL – origin, purpose, value, limitations
Describe-Identify-Interpret-Evaluate-Reflect
See booklet p23
DISCUSSION: What scaffold/s do you use? Why?
Teaching strategies for visual analysis:Cartoon PD in a package
http://john.curtin.edu.au/education/cartoonpd/
http://john.curtin.edu.au/education/cartoonpd/index.html
Ok, but what about written sources?
SummarisingContextualisingInferringMonitoring Corroborating
http://www.historicalinquiry.com/scim/index.cfm
See booklet pages 24-34
Short answer in exam
Revolution 1 Revolution 2
Section A: Two short answer questions (AOS 1)
Section B: “Text” Analysis (AOS 1)
Section A: “Text” Analysis (AOS 2)
Section B: Essay(AOS 2)
Section A Q1 & 2
DISCUSSION: How do you support development of students’ short answer responses?
Two things…
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Exit card
1 new idea1 question1 thing you’ll try