Key Stage 3 lesson for a scheme of work on The Rise of The Dictators. In this lesson we look at the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its causes. We begin by looking at Tsar Nicholas II, we then watch a video clip on the reasons for the Revolution. We use info cards and visual hexagons to examine the causes in more detail. We then look at the rise of the Bolsheviks and the pupils create a scroll through history to explain the events of the rise of Bolshevism. We look at a source featuring Lenin and finish on a “to what extent” question.
I hope this proves useful and saves you some time.
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A full powerpoint lesson looking at the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution
Video link giving overview of the1905 Revolution and overview of main event topics to be examined.
Events of 1905 upto the Bulygin Rescript
Events of 1905 upto October.
The Soviet and the 1905 Russian Revolution
The Soviet and the 1905 Russian Revolution - Role of Trotsky
The Liberals and the 1905 Revolution
Revolution amongst the National Minorities
Rural Peasants and the 1905 Revolution
The military and the 1905 Revolution x2
Consequences of 1905 Events - source activity
Return of Witte
OCR ALevel History Russia 1894-1941
Topic 2: Towards a Constitutional Monarchy.
This two hour lesson examines the creation of the Duma from the October Manifesto and the limits of the Fundamental laws.
Also examines the challenges of the Duma and the makeup of them and why Nicholas dissolved them each time.
Includes detailed information and all resources needed if you do not have textbook pages from Corin and Fiehn- I have typed up all necessary info onto documents to accompany the lesson.
These resources enable students to understand the context of the Russian Revolution, the predominant subject of Orwell’s allegory within Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn about the key historical events and figures throughout this point in time in Russian history, and begin to comprehend Orwell’s intentions in writing the novella. These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge which they can then utilise to begin confidently relating the text to its context. There are easily enough resources for at least two lessons within this resource pack.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through a discussion-based starter task;
- Watching, listening, and demonstrating their understanding of an engaging and informative context video and related activity sheet;
- Developing their understanding through in-depth investigative research into the main leaders of the Russian Revolution;
- Writing a letter from the viewpoint of a member of the Russian working class, who has lived through the various regimes and revolutions.
- Peer assessing their partners’ learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint (includes links for video)
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Context worksheet;
- Five investigative research templates: Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, and The Secret Police.
All images and videos are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint. Note - internet connection is needed for the video activity.
Tired of mixing up revolutions?
This resource is designed to support ALevel/ GCSE students in differentiating between the 3 revolutions in Russia.
It is a colour code match up of information for the 1905, Feb 1917 and Oct 1917 revolutions.
Includes: Long term causes, short term causes/ sparks, aims, leadership and support, events, impact on government etc.
Also includes answers.
Full power point lesson looking at the October Manifesto - Consequence of the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Wittes options to the Tsar - info and source task
Grand Duke Nikolai - Souce task (Figes)
Witte and the October Manifesto
The terms of the October Manifesto
Effect of the October Manifesto - Source activity
Responses to the October Manifesto – The Liberals
Responses to the October Manifesto – The Peasants
Responses to the October Manifesto – The Army and Navy
Responses to the October Manifesto – The urban worker
How far did the October and November Manifestos mark a change in Tsarist views
Responses to the October Manifesto – The Black Hundreds
Reasons why Tsar survived the 1905 Revolution
Russian Revolution –
This is a completely fully resourced and integrated series of 17 lessons on the Russian Revolution. It was designed for junior/seniors but has also been used very effectively lower down the school.
Each lesson contains as a minimum:
• Recap from the previous lesson
• Keyword flashcards (in a unique ‘Pokémon card style’ template!)
• Writing skill challenges building up to fully developed PEEKA paragraphs (these increase in complexity as you move through the lessons)
• Text with comprehension questions
• A ‘reverse engineer’ essay question task.
• A model paragraph with a ‘how can you improve?’ task
• Stretch questions.
• Video links.
The 17 lessons are as follows:
Russia and its discontents (free)
1905 Revolution (free)
The First World War (free)
Rasputin
February Revolution
Mid-Module Revision Tasks and Knowledge Check
Provisional Government
October Revolution
Bolsheviks & Constituent Assembly
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War – Why did the Reds win?
Russian Civil War – War Communism
Russian Civil War – Kronstadt Naval Mutiny
Russian Civil War – New Economic Policy
Russian Civil War – Lenin’s Legacy
End of unit – all revision cards, revision tasks, assessment questions, models and criteria.
Hope they help.
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GCSE Russian. Theme: International and global dimension. Topic: Environmental issues. Higher Tier.
This excellent PPP resource consists of 55 slides. New words, phrases and interesting tasks along with authentic photos all are incorporated into the resource in a way to allow students to learn new words related to the topic and be able to explain global warming in Russian language.
The resource consists of 3 parts: part 1 “What is global warming?”, part 2 “Global warming is a threat to all of humanity!” and part 3 “What can I do?”.
The resource can be easily amended by a teacher for their needs.
The resource can be helpful in preparation for the exam and can be used in the classroom or independently. Recommended for Higher Tier.
A Level Discussion on a theme booklet is a resource for those teaching Russian to A level in the secondary school. The booklet offers a wide range of questions for the initiation and development of discussion on four topics in accordance with Specification “GCE Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Russian (9RU0)”.
The goal is to master students’ interactive skills and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the Russian context.
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text recounts the events that led to the Russian Revolution from the early 1900s to 1923, including the end of the Romanov monarchy and the formation of Lenin’s communist dictatorship and the Soviet Union.
The text is suitable for advanced intermediate to proficient ESL learners and native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, multiple choice exercise , a definitions-match exercise and a crossword.
This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
Answer Key included
Total number of pages: 7
97 slides dedicated to helping my A Level students learn every aspect of the Cambridge A Level History syllabus for the The Russian Revolution, 1894–1921, with group and individual tasks thrown in.
You can use this alongside the delivery of the course, or as a revision aid.
Includes the following key questions:
What were the causes and outcomes of the 1905
Revolution up to 1914?
What were the causes and immediate outcomes of
the February Revolution in 1917?
How and why did the Bolsheviks gain power in
October 1917?
How were the Bolsheviks able to consolidate their
power up to 1921?
Full power point lesson looking at the October Revolution of 1917
Starter activity - define content related themes - then AFL with answers on next slide.
Bolshevik thinking about revolution
Lenin’s view of when a revolution should happen
The Bolsheviks at the start of October 1917
The October Revolution
Street view of key locations in Petrograd in October 1917
Pictures of key moments x4
Trotsky and the October Revolution
How important was LENIN compared with the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT in causing the Russian Revolution of October 1917?
This lesson is titled: Why did Russia leave the ‘Great War’?
It covers a range of short-term causes of the 1917 revolution, including Rasputin’s influence, failures of the Tsar, impact of the First World War.
It builds on some prior knowledge of
a) causes of WW1
b) context of Russia in the early 20th century
c) events of 1905
Lesson objective: to investigate the causes of the February 1917 revolution
KS3 Russian Biomes Top Trumps Lesson
This lesson resource consists of a powerpoint, top-trump cards and information sheets.
The lesson has the following success criteria:
To be able to describe how the environment changes across Russia.
To be able to explain how the environment changes across Russia
To be able to compare how the environment and landscape differ between Russia’s biomes.
To be able to predict how these will change in the future.
Lesson Plan
Students match up the key words with their definitions.
Students describe the distribution of biomes.
Students create top trumps using the information ppt. and top-trump cards.
Students play top trumps using the temperature and precipitation category. Then ask students to order from the card that wins the most to the card that loses the most. This will show the latitudinal gradient of biomes.
Russian beasts and where to find them. Students match up the images with the biomes.
Students predict how the distribution of biomes will change in the future.
This booklet is for Russian language teachers preparing students for the A level exam in Russian.
The booklet includes materials for studying the topic “Изменения в жизни большого российского города” using the example of Moscow, although most of the questions and tasks can also be used when studying St. Petersburg.
This booklet offers:
Some resources that can be used as a starting point for discussing aspects of the topic “Изменения в жизни большого российского города”.
Questions for discussion on sub-themes.
Assignments for individual, pair, and group work in the classroom and independent work of students.
Some of the tasks are convenient to use in offline classes, some are also suitable for online lessons.
The pictures used in this booklet are accompanied by references and links to sources or obtained by the author from the Freepick resource.
I hope that this booklet will be useful to you and will help reduce the time for preparing for classes.
This is a Russian language lesson for beginners. The Cyrillic alphabet is a good start for those who want to learn Russian as a foreign language.
In this lesson you will find:
- The letters of the Cyrillic alphabet (which is the one used to write in Russian).
- Examples of words for each letter.
In order to help you with the pronunciation, each word in Russian comes with a 'pronunciation guide' in parenthesis.
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