HTAV Annual Conference presentation July 26th 2013

1. The Russian Revolution:
Historiography, source analysis and
short answer
Dr Catherine Hart
Brighton Grammar School
chart@brightongrammar.vic.edu.au

2. 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)

8. 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)

9. What is historiography?
What is it NOT?
Why study historiography?
Historiography
History is a ‘living’ subject
History is full of diversity
Historians disagree
http://alphahistory.com/vcehistory/about-historiography/

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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

13. Great links
• http://mcvcehistory.wikispaces.com/Unit+4+R
evolutions+Russia
• http://mcvcehistory.wikispaces.com/Unit+4+R
evolutions+Russia
• http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/rus
sian-revolution-historiography/

14. 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

15. 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)

16. Bolshevik images
Bolshevik images
are often idealistic
about the new
society, portraying
their leaders and the
proletariat as giants
or kindly paternalists

17. "Lenin proclaims Soviet power" by Vladimir Serov, 1947

18. The Russian Tsars
at home (1916)

19. 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?

20. Teaching strategies for visual analysis:
Cartoon PD in a package
http://john.curtin.edu.au/education/cartoonpd/

25. http://john.curtin.edu.au/education/cartoonpd/index.html

26. Ok, but what about written sources?
Summarising
Contextualising
Inferring
Monitoring
Corroborating
http://www.historicalinquiry.com/scim/index.cfm

27. 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?

28. Two things…
Scholarships to Jerusalem (Holocaust studies)
Applications for Pauline Glass Study Grants close
Tuesday, 6 August 2013 – see Courage to Care
stand TODAY

29. Exit card
1 new idea
1 question
1 thing you’ll try