Write
an essay of 1200-1500 words that answers the following
question. Make sure you answer all parts of the question.
Topic: What role did World
War I play in the coming and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
In your answer, be sure to talk not only about
the specific events of the war itself but also about the social situation that
turned those events into a revolutionary situation. What did peasants,
soldiers, industrial workers, patriotic liberal intelligentsia, and members of
socialist movements want that turned war failures into revolution, and how did
they turn the revolution of February into the revolution of October, ending up
seemingly against all odds in a single-party dictatorship? Please make sure you
look at the essay exam rubric and use it as a check list to make sure you’ve
covered all of these issues.
In your response, be sure to include at least one reference
to something you learned from a film you watched for the course and one
reference to something you learned from BOOK: Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Officer and
Exile.
Films:
1. Keeping
Score | Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_0ve2KFuk
2. les 100 ans
du sacre du printemps par le théâtre Mariinski https://youtu.be/_QZXrPJGLJ0
3. Capitalism and Socialism: Crash
Course World History #33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3u4EFTwprM
4. Battleship Potemkin (1925) Full
Movie in HD English Subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCR44ihk6C8
5. The Russian February Revolution
1917 I THE GREAT WAR Week 137 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SyO5E0MBz4
6. The Tsar Abdicates – Baghdad Falls I THE GREAT WAR Week 138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KkEmy-VoQ&t=11s
7. Russia’s New Offensive – The Russian Women’s Battalion of Death
I THE GREAT WAR Week 153 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utTt8JWmlc&t=6s
8. July Days In Petrograd – Blood On The Nevsky Prospect I THE
GREAT WAR Week 156 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286aZvaFGQE&t=1s
9. Attempted Military Coup in Russia – The Kornilov Affair I THE
GREAT WAR Week 164 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlNau4YbOpU&t=1s
10. Lenin & Trotsky – Their Rise To Power I WHO DID WHAT IN
WW1?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoJ6raesow&t=8s
11. Important
film Tractor drivers (comedy, directed by Ivan Pyriev, 1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7LglSy4B3w
12. The Stakhanov Movement (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2MHU5kZYI&t=118s
13. Happy Housewarming, Comrade Busygin! (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ-VtIEJ0P8
14. Aleksei Stakhanov (1936)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkShXsmaYLM