Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source A: Map of the Russian Empire in 1900

What does Source A tell you about the Russian Empire in 1900?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source B: Peasants in Tsarist Russia

What can you infer about peasants in Tsarist Russia? (5)

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source C: Workers in Tsarist Russia

What can you infer about working conditions in Tsarist Russia? (5)

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source C: Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

What does this source tell you about the Tsar? (5)

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source D: A painting of Bloody Sunday from 1910What can you infer about Russian views towards the Tsar? (5)

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source F: Effects of World War I

“as early as the beginning of the second year, desertions of soldiers at the front became commonplace. The average number of deserters reached 25%. I happen to know of three cases where the train was stopped because there were no passengers on it. All except the officer in command had fled.”

Chairman of the Military Commission of the DumaWhy did the speaker make the comments in Source F? (5)

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source G: Russian army desertions in 1917

How does Source G help you to understand Russia in 1917?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source H: Lenin’s April Theses: Peace, Bread & Land

What does Source H tell you about Lenin’s role in the October Revolution?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source J: Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace

Why did the artist portray the October Revolution in this manner?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source K: the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922What is the cartoonist trying to say about the Russian Civil War?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source L: War Communism during the Russian Civil WarWhat is the cartoonist trying to say about the Russian Civil War?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source M: New Economic Policy 1922-1927

What can you infer about the Soviet Union under New Economic Policy?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Stalin’s agricultural collectivisation

Source N:

“Look at the Kulak farms: their barns and sheds are crammed with grain. They are waiting for prices to rise. So long as there are Kulaks there will be sabotage of our grain needs. The effect will be that our towns and industrial centres, as well as the Red Army, will be threatened with hunger. We cannot allow that. We must break the resistance of this class and deprive it of its existence.”

Stalin speaking to Siberian party officials after the grain crisis of 1927

How does this source help you to understand why collectivisation was introduced in 1928?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Stalin’s Five-Year Plan

Source P:

Throughout history Russia has been beaten again and again because she was backward… to slow down industrialisation would mean falling behind and getting beaten. Russia was beaten by British and French capitalists and the Japanese too. Lenin has said: ‘Either die or overtake and outstrip the advanced capitalist countries’. We are 50 to 100 years behind them. Either we make good the difference of they crush us.”

Stalin speaking in 1931

How does this source help you to understand why the Five-Year Plans were introduced in 1928?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source Q: Stalin’s 1st Five-Year Plans, 1928-1932

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source R: The Stalinist Constitution

What can you infer about Stalin’s leadership of the Soviet Union?

Russia: Fall of Tsarist monarchy to Stalin’s Soviet Union

Source S: Propaganda in Stalinist Russia

What does this source tell you about Stalin?