{"id":4277,"date":"2018-08-16T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2018-10-07T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T13:18:44","slug":"significance-of-ww1-for-russia-study-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/significance-of-ww1-for-russia-study-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of WW1 for Russia: Study Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/WW1_and_Russia\/Lesson_1_How_Stable\/0_Study_Guide.doc\">Overview and study guide<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the Cold War, the debate about the nature and origins of the 1917 Communist Revolution was particularly heated. The Capitalist West was eager to discredit the origins of the USSR, and the USSR was equally determined to romanticise them.<br \/>\nSince the end of the Cold War, the debate has continued to rage between Left- and Right-Wing historians.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the Left, a defence of the Bolshevik revolution is important as a defence of socialism itself.<\/li>\n<li>On the Right, the demonization of the same event is central to discrediting socialist ideology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Coursework assignment: &#8220;Analyse the significance of World War One for Russia&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the new scheme of work &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/igcse\/russia_essay\/\">Analyse the Significance of World War One for Russia<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4278\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03-1024x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03-492x300.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03.jpg 1764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview and study guide During the Cold War, the debate about the nature and origins of the 1917 Communist Revolution was particularly heated. The Capitalist West was eager to discredit the origins of the USSR, and the USSR was equally determined to romanticise them. Since the end of the Cold War, the debate has continued&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/significance-of-ww1-for-russia-study-guide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[272,1012,1010,340,1011],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-07-at-15.18.03.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-16Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}