{"id":491,"date":"2008-05-11T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T11:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/debate-was-tsarist-russia-on-the-verge-of-collapse-in-1914\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T11:06:01","slug":"debate-was-tsarist-russia-on-the-verge-of-collapse-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/debate-was-tsarist-russia-on-the-verge-of-collapse-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate: Was Tsarist Russia on the verge of collapse in 1914?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/A_Level\/Late_Modern\/Russia_and_the_USSR\/Tsar_Nicholas_II_and_the_Russian_Revolutions.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/top_activities\/pics\/thumbnails\/yr12_russia_gif.jpg\" alt=\"Tsarist Russia under Nicholas II\" \/><\/a>For IB \/ A-Level historians. After the above essay question has been set, students could prepare for and deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/as\/mod\/tsar_nicholas\/5_Politics\/6_Debate.pdf\">this debate<\/a>, the findings of which can then feed into their set essays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For IB \/ A-Level historians. After the above essay question has been set, students could prepare for and deliver this debate, the findings of which can then feed into their set essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ib-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3559,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/ib-history-teachers-debate-is-it-true-that-israel-was-a-state-created-as-a-result-of-terrorism\/","url_meta":{"origin":491,"position":0},"title":"IB History Teachers Debate: Is it true that Israel was a state created as a result of terrorism?","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"March 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"IB History Teachers Debate: Is it true that Israel was a state created as a result of terrorism? 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