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Rev's Exam Help Thread
mypurpleundercracka:
Thought id bring this rev's forum back to life and follow the example of other subjects were we can make a thread to help each other out and ask each other questions if we need to. Aside from that, how is everyone going in there revision? personally ive been doing some past exam questions to start with from French Rev
haneybee:
for your revision are you just using practice exam questions from past papers?
I'm attempting to do the same as you... but I'm still finding historiography the most challenging part, especially as there's no certainty as to what type of document/visual we'll get. =SS
I think it's unfortunate that the essay questions aren't broad this year and we only get one for each Rev... it's a bit restricting...
Amnesiac:
I found that making a timeline was a great method of study for Revs. You can do it in addition to competing exam papers and collecting and applying historians perspectives. If you are doing one of the harder Revolutions such as China or France, it can be particularly helpful in getting your head around what happened and when it happened.
kendraaaaa:
Timelines are good, mindmaps are better! Haha
I think a good question to talk about is whether or not the French revolution was a 'peoples tragedy' or not. I think that labelling the rev in that manner is too short-sighted. The achievements of the rev greatly outweight (in my opinion) the deaths under the Terror.
other opinions?
mypurpleundercracka:
--- Quote from: kendraaaaa on October 07, 2009, 08:43:58 pm ---Timelines are good, mindmaps are better! Haha
I think a good question to talk about is whether or not the French revolution was a 'peoples tragedy' or not. I think that labelling the rev in that manner is too short-sighted. The achievements of the rev greatly outweight (in my opinion) the deaths under the Terror.
other opinions?
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McPhee couldnt have put it better himself.
30,000 out of 30 mill killed in the terror is nothing. According to McPhee the achievements of the rev (i.e. Constitution of 93, abolishment of Code Noir, right to insurrection) --> overshadow and are worth more than the terror
But then you got old idiots like Schama, who just talk about "violence being the motor of the rev". Seems every quote from this old pom is about bloodshed, nothing positive from him.
Doyle and and old Frenchies --> Robespierre = SATAN. "We cannot assume the revolution is a turn for the better"
BUT in the end what did the rev achieve?
In April 1795 --> san-culottes who had been at the forefront of the rev nearly had the suburb of Saint-Antoine destroyed coz they demanded "fraternite" and the return of the Constitution of 1793. You also have to consider the Marxist perspective of a bourgeois revolution which I agree with, look at the gerrymandering of the electoral roles in 95' (only for property owners and "active citizens") for the "better sort of people"
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