The Russian Revolution: Historiography, source analysis and

short answer

Dr Catherine HartBrighton Grammar School

chart@brightongrammar.vic.edu.au

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