A level History

Tsarist Russia

Section 1: Reform and reaction, 1855–1881

• Alexander II’s motives for reform
• The Emancipation of the Serfs and its impact
• Military, local government and judicial reforms
• Educational, cultural and economic reforms
• Alexander and reaction
• The emergence of opposition to the Tsarist regime
• Populism and radical opposition

Section 2: Political reaction: social and economic change, 1881–1904

• Industrialisation: the work of Vyshnegradsky and Witte
• The social impact of industrial change
• The growth of opposition
• The rule of Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II to 1904

Section 3: Russia in Revolution, 1904–1906

• The war with Japan and the causes of the 1905 Revolution
• The 1905 Revolution: Bloody Sunday and developments up to October 1905
• The October Manifesto and promise of reform
• Repression and the recovery of Tsarist authority

Section 4: The Tsarist Regime 1906–1914

• The work of the Dumas
• Prime ministers and the Dumas
• The agrarian reforms of Pyotr Stolypin
• Economic development in Russia up to 1914
• The condition of Russia in 1914

Section 5: The First World War and the revolutions of 1917

• The impact of the First World War
• The February/March 1917 Revolution
• Russia and the Provisional Government
• Lenin and the Provisional Government April–July 1917
• The October/November 1917 Revolution