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Advanced Higher- Soviet Russia (historiography)

#1 User is offline   RachelJCav 

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Post icon  Posted 06 September 2009 - 10:09 PM

I have not a clue on how to find/use historiography in answers/essays, I know I've just started the course but I've been set a task which requires it, and I'm finding it very difficult. If at all possible, could someone please reccomend a few historians to use when discussing the February revolutions?
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Posted 07 September 2009 - 08:54 AM

There is no big mystery to 'historiography' - all it is is 'what historians have said in the past about this question'.
Note that it need not only include academic historians. It is what ANYBODY has said, and you can (as long as you correctly provenance them) include internet blogs, newspaper articles, what your uncle said etc.
(This can be useful is there is a dearth of academic comment.)

To be fair, before you answer ANY question, it would make sense to see what people have said about it already!

How you use this in your essay can vary.
One way might be to START by summarising the historiography, before you plough into what YOU have found/think.
Another/additional way would be to litter the essay with references to what other historians have said (e.g. as Clare says: 'XXXX').
At GCSE, I tell my pupils to use what other people have said in their conclusion.

At A-level, you will probably need to do all three.

As for the February Revolution
The best place you can get ideas about the historiography is probably your textbook - most A-level books (notably the Access to History series) tend to include an overiew oif the historiography.

There is something on this on activehistory, although you or your school would have to sign up to access the info.
History Today has an article on this (Volume: 32 Issue: 7 | July 1982) but it will be quite out of date now and is pay-to-view online; your school or local library might have back issues if you ask there.

There is a chapter in this google book.

This essay looks very hard.

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