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The Russian Revolution Paper 3: Challenge
The Russian Revolution Paper 3: Challenge
Starting from strike and price data, comparing the two revolutions and unpacking the institutional aftermath down to civil war.
Direct answers Answers and explanations for all ten questions
01 Paper details (check answers afterwards)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 10 |
| Suggested time | 20 |
| Difficulty mix | Foundation 3 · Intermediate 3 · Challenge 3 · Error redo 1 |
| Chapter | Chapter: DSE History The Russian Revolution |
| Level | Paper 3 (challenge) |
02 Questions (10 items)
- FoundationStrikes in a city rise from 250 in one year to 400 the next. What is the increase?
- FoundationIf food prices rise 12 per cent a month for eight months, what is the cumulative rise?
- FoundationRussia mobilised about 15 million men from 1914 to 1917, with 7 million killed, wounded or missing. What share is that?
- IntermediateCompare February and October: which was closer to a spontaneous movement, and why?
- IntermediateWhy did the post-February power vacuum help the Bolsheviks?
- IntermediateWhat was the fundamental split over the war between the April Theses and the Provisional Government?
- ChallengeWhich two decrees did the soviet government issue first after October, and what did they say?
- ChallengeWhy did the civil war of 1918 to 1922 strengthen Bolshevik central control?
- ChallengeWhy did some party members see the New Economic Policy of 1921 as a retreat?
- Error redoError clinic: “Russia left the First World War the moment the October Revolution succeeded.” What is wrong?
03 Answers and one-line notes
| # | Answer | One-line note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60.0 per cent | One hundred and fifty over two hundred and fifty; strike waves usually track food prices and hours. |
| 2 | about 147.6 per cent | One point one two to the eighth is about 2.476, a rise of 147.6 per cent; compounding turned it into a city food crisis. |
| 3 | 46.7 per cent | Seven hundred over fifteen hundred; casualty rates fed straight into army loyalty and labour supply. |
| 4 | February was more spontaneous, starting from food shortages and strikes; October was a party-planned armed rising | February had no single leading centre and army defection was decisive, while October had a Military Revolutionary Committee and a timetable. |
| 5 | the Provisional Government stayed in the war and conditions worsened, so radical demands won a soviet majority fast | When authority and control separate, the party offering simple solutions of peace, land and bread gains most. |
| 6 | Lenin demanded immediate withdrawal from an imperialist war; the government wanted to keep fighting to defend Russia | One saw the war as imperialist rivalry, the other as national defence, and that shaped each side base of support. |
| 7 | the Decree on Peace calling for an immediate armistice, and the Decree on Land abolishing gentry ownership and giving land to peasants | The decrees cashed the slogans and were key to early peasant and soldier support. |
| 8 | wartime needs concentrated food and troops, producing Cheka repression and war communism | Survival pressure centralised decisions and treated dissent as rebellion, and the habit outlived the war. |
| 9 | it restored limited market exchange and small private enterprise, read as a concession to capitalism | War communism brought famine and the Kronstadt rising, so Lenin retreated to restore production before consolidating power. |
| 10 | wrong: October came in November 1917, and formal exit waited for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918 | Armistice talks and German advances continued in between; confusing a call for peace with an actual exit is the usual error. |
04 What to do after marking
- After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
- Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
- Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.
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