The Russian Historiography Thread!

[Menang]

Following from the French version, here are some quotes for the Russian Revolution. I've chosen my favourites and the ones I though were most useful to me last year.

AoS1

Regarding the general state of Russia (pre-revolution):
Robert Service

...the Russian Empire was deeply fissured between the government and the tsar's subjects; between the capital and the provinces; between the educated and the uneducated; between Western and Russian ideas; between rich and poor; between privilege and oppression; between contemporary fashion and centuries-old custom.

Albert Nenarokov

The general backwardness of the country could not be overcome by half0measures or reforms of any kind. It was a reflection of the crisis of the whole system and called for its reorganisation.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

...the Tsarist regime was pregnant with irreconcilable internal contradictions that it had no capacity to resolve.

Bernard Pares

The sovereign might be weak as water, he might change his mind every five minutes, but the thing which he said last, was the thing that was done, and the government of the Empire reflection in full every variation of his will.

Orlando Figes

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

Richard Pipes

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

Bloody Sunday
History of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)

The streets of St Petersburg ran with workers' blood. January 9 came to be known as "Bloody Sunday": On that day the workers received a bloody lesson. It was their faith in the tsar that was riddled by bullets on that day. They came to realise that they could win their rights only by struggle.

Figes

It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

The 1905 Revolution
Leon Trotsky

Although with a few broken ribs, Tsarism came out of the experience of 1906 alive and strong enough.

The events of 1905 were a prologue to the two revolutions of 1917, that of February and that of October.

Pares

The monarchy had been saved; the economy was prosperous; and Russia had - shall we say - half a constitution.

Figes

...although the regime succeeded in restoring order, it could not hope to put the clock back. 1905 had changed society for good. Many of the younger comrades of 1905 were the elders of 1917. They were inspired by its memory and instructed by its lessons.

CPSU

The revolution disclosed that tsardom was the sworn enemy of the people, that tsardom was like the proverbial hunchback whom only the grave could cure.

Pipes

In the end, Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

The February (1917) Revolution
David Longley

The collapse of 1917 was paradoxically the consequences of the success of the regime in meeting the military challenge, at the expense of civilian Russia; a traditionally Russian situation.

W. Bruce Lincoln

Ever since the Emperor Nicholas II had taken command of his country's collapsing armies in August 1915, he had allowed his neurotically introspective Empress to turn his empire onto one of the most bizarre courses ever taken by a nation at war.

Pares

And so the Russian Emperor was compelled by his wife to flout all thinking Russia, his Ministers, the Duma, the organs of local government and the general public, and go off to the front to win the war without them, leaving her to manage the rear for him.

Nenarokov

The decay of the tsarist regime was most apparent in the Rasputin cult.

Alan Wood
[quote...the scandal which had surrounded Rasputin's name was merely a symptom, not a cause, of the acute malaise which inflicted an incompetent and unpopular regime now deep in the throes of war.[/quote]

Figes

Alexandra's 'sexual corruption' became a kind of metaphor for the diseased condition of the tsarist state.

tbc.

[The Detective]

THANKS ELYSIA! =D

[Menang]

Hahaha, no worries. It's yet to be completed though! (So many to type out!) 0_0

OMG Jess!
I didn't know you're on VN!

[The Detective]

Who is this Jess?

Nah ahaha just kidding!

Yeah I didn't know you were on it either I was thinking menang is so smart oh its Elysia yay! 

[Menang]

Ahahaha It was Indo, wasn't it? Maybe I should take off my study scores. It's becoming way too easier to identify me...

But yeah, Ms McAlpine will give you a handout with a massive collection of quotes (which included all the ones from above) anyway.

[The Detective]

Yeah the 50 gave it away you're too smart man!

Okay cool don't know how I'm going to remember all those dates and quotes though!
Englang exam is the day after revs and there are quotes to be remember for it too...

[Menang]

Okay cool don't know how I'm going to remember all those dates and quotes though!
Englang exam is the day after revs and there are quotes to be remember for it too...

Oh dear, that is actually quite annoying.

Most of the major dates will come quite naturally by the end of the year. The hardest ones are the slightly less important - stuff like all the laws of the terror (especially in 1793, iirc). Use my date cards!

Quotes are basically just rote-learning. Over, and over, and over. I'll have to do that all over again for Rens this year. And I thought I was done with historian's quotes...

I have exams on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the Monday after. All my exams in a row. -_-

[Finchette]

Hi! Did you have any quotes for A02?
Thanks

[Triazic]

AOS2 anyone?

[Menang]

Sorry, I have some, but absolutely no time to type them up.

Go do some extra reading! I'll try to update if I can, but I'm doing Year 12, just like you, so I might not have time.