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How Useful?. What you are being asked…. Essentially, you are being asked how helpful this source is in providing reliable, detailed information about *buzz*? How do you do this? Same way as Higher and SG just in greater detail! Author > Date > Purpose > Content > Recall. .
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What you are being asked… • Essentially, you are being asked how helpful this source is in providing reliable, detailed information about *buzz*? • How do you do this? Same way as Higher and SG just in greater detail! Author > Date > Purpose > Content > Recall.
1.Provenance (Up to 3 marks) Authorship: • Discuss the author fully in relation to the *buzz*. • Historian – school of thought? General view of *buzz*. Any limitations to this historian’s view? E.g. Soviet historian. • Contemporary of the *buzz* - involvement in events, actions at the time etc. Date: • How does the date link to the *buzz*; be very specific.
1. Provenance (Up to 3 marks) Purpose: • What is the aim of the source? Official document/diary entry/letter etc. • Read the content of the source to gain a greater understanding of what the source is trying to say! • Is there any reason why this would limit the usefulness of the source?
2. Source Content (Up to 3 marks) • Just like the other source types – you identify relevant source content which is related to the *buzz*. • Add recall to support. • You may quote or paraphrase BUT ensure your use of source content is obvious.
Reminder! • You can only gain a maximum of 5 marks for provenance and source content.
3. Recall (Up to 5 marks) • Again, similar to the structure of the two source response, it can be helpful – to you – to include your recall throughout the response, as you are dealing with source content. • Recall must be directly linked to *buzz* and very well developed.
4. Historiography (Up to 2 marks) • Make use of the views of other historians who offer different/similar perspectives to the author of the source. • You must be clear by naming historians and detailing their beliefs. By providing evidence along with these viewpoints you will also get marks for recall.
SOURCE B from A History of Twentieth Century Russia by Robert Service (1997) Matters came to a head with the resumption of industrial conflicts in February 1917. Wages for workers in the Petrograd armaments plants probably rose slightly faster than inflation. It was reckoned that such workers by 1917 were being paid in real terms between fifteen and twenty per cent less than before the war. Yet Nicholas was unsurprisingly complacent about the labour movement. The Emperor would indeed have faced difficulties even if he had summoned regiments from the Eastern front; for the High Command stayed very reluctant to get involved in politics. It is true that the monarchy’s troubles were as yet located in a single city. Yet this limitation was only temporary; for Petrograd was the capital; as soon as news spread to the provinces there was bound to be further popular commotion. Antipathy to the regime was fiercer than in 1905–1906. How useful is Source B as an explanation of the causes of the February Revolution? (12)
SOURCE A from N. N. Sukhanov’s The Russian Revolution 1917: a personal record (1922) In this period of the agony of Tsarism, the attention of Russia, or at any rate of Petersburg “society”, and of political circles in the state capital revolved primarily around the State Duma convened on February 14th. Moderate Socialists held that the workers’ street demonstrations under the slogans of “Bread!” and “Down with the Autocracy!” were linked to the convening of the State Duma. Elements further to the Left, including myself, spoke out at various party meetings against tying the workers’ activities with the Duma because bourgeois circles there had given proof enough, not only of their inability to join the proletariat even against Rasputin, but also of their mortal fear of utilising the strength of the proletariat in the struggle for a constitutional regime or for “carrying on the war to total victory” . . . Not one party was preparing for the great upheaval. Everyone was dreaming, ruminating, full of foreboding, feeling his way . . . How useful is Source A as an explanation of the nature of the February revolution? (12)
