Russian Revolution historiography

Complete the following sentence with the correct word: Historiography is the study of how history has been and is written. It focuses on the changing _______ of past events in the works of individual historians.

• sources

• facts

• interpretations

A historiographical school of thought represents a group of historians who share a common interpretation or perspective about events in the past.

• true

• false

All good historians are capable of producing history that is completely free and separate from their own political, cultural, religious, racial, gender, philosophical, national and personal beliefs.

• true

• false

A great deal of historical debate about the Russian Revolution revolves around the ...

• 1905 revolution.

• the Bolshevik seizure of power from the Tsar in October 1917.

• the Bolshevik seizure of power from the Provisional Government in October 1917.

Many conservative historians condemn the October Revolution as an illegal grab for power by Lenin and the Bolsheviks which lacked popular support.

• true

• false

Official Soviet histories of the 1917 revolutions condemn the role played by the Bolsheviks and present the Tsar and the Provisional Government in a favourable light.

• true

• false

The revisionist school of thought has attempted to occupy the "middle ground" between the Soviet and Western liberal perspectives.

• true

• false