Russia Essay plans

Tssarist gov was transformed in the years 1906-1914

Politics - Autocracy vs Duma

Economics - Witte’s industrial reforms vs Stolypins’ agrarian reforms

Opression - Stayed the same, Okhrana

Kerensky’s leadership was the main cause for the end of PG in 1917

Poor dealing with Kornilov affair - rearmed the Bols, did nothing when Bol plans leaked by Kamenev and Zinoviev

Overall weaknesses of the PG - Illegitimate as appointed themselves as they were the leftovers from the Provsional Committee, power undermined by the Petrograd Soviet

Strength of Bols - Lenin got all the Bols on side, Trotsky had access to the MRC so could get weaponary and the white plans

Similarities between War Communism and the NEP outwieght the differences

Caused an increase in prices - Black market vs Industry cant keep up with agriculture

Contemporary politics - Cheka + Cheka becomes GPU

Grain requisitioning - Taken by Cheka and caused famine in 1921vs decreased and taxed instead of taken in 1921

The Russo-Japanese war rather than domestic issues was the main reason for revolution in Russia in 1905

Failures of the battles - Mukden 400k casualties and Tsushima, causes Potemkin Mutiny

Discontent of the public - Shame/Embarassment of the loss of war against an ‘easy enemy’, failures of gov due to nepotism

Discontent of the peasants - Bloody Sunday 

Strength of red or weakness of white that won the war

Leadership - Split forces vs Trotsky + dual command (every war commander partnered with a political commisar)

Areas of control and manpower - Rural areas + volunteering vs Urban areas + 5m strong army by 1921

Support from the public - Old Tsarist system vs “Peace,land and bread”

Opposition to Tsarism had little impact over the years 1894-1914

For = Repressive nature of regime - Okhrana, censorship, exile

For = Weaknesses of opposition - they were divided, rivalries (Bols and Mens)

Against = Impacts of 1905 revolution

The fall of the PG in 1917 was due to its domestic policies than to its decision to stay in the war

For = Failure to address land reform - no redistribution of land to peasants( 84% of pop) , so increasingly turned to Bols

For = Incompetency in governance - No authority as illegitimate, undermined by the PS , ‘ all power to the soviet’

Against = Stayed in the FWW, Milyukov reversed Tsereteli’s revolutionary defencism