PAPER 3: HISTORY OF EURASIA

I. Causation

• What were the main long- and short-term causes of the 1905 Revolution?

• What were the main causes of the Lenin's Russia success among society plus consolidation of new Soviet state?

• What were the causes of Yugoslavian challenge to the Soviet's control under Tito?

• What were the main long- and short-term causes of the Balkan Wars in 1990's?

II. Consequence

• What were the main social plus economic consequences of the 1905 Revolution (including Stolypin and the Dumas)?

• What were the main consequences of New Economic Policy (NEP)?

• What were the main consequences of East German, Polish, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian support plus collaboration among themselves along with Soviet's repressions and the given countries protests towards Russian actions between 1945 and 1968?

• What were the key social, political and economic consequences of the Balkan Wars in 1990's?  

III. Perspective

• To what extent do you agree with a statement that February/March Revolution, October/November Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution plus provisional government and dual power (Soviets) had the same perspective?

• What was the perspective of following three Russian historical figures, namely Lenin-Trotsky-Stalin on nation, revolution as well as governing the country?

• What perspective and justification were used by communists during Civil War, War Communism, New Collectivisation Policy plus purges and Great Terror in Soviet Russia during Joseph Stalin's governorship? 

• What were Milosevic's perspective plus impact during the Balkan Wars in 1990?

IV. Continuity

• Can we observe continuity in Alexander's III (1881–1894) and Nicholas's II (1894–1917) policies getting a fix on economic modernisation, tsarist repression and the growth of opposition?

• Was there a proper continuity of state's policies in dealing with domestic and foreign affairs by Khrushchev,  Brezhnev and finally Gorbachev?

• To what extent acceptance of and opposition to the Soviet Russia did shape its leaders desire to continue on governorship in East
  Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; Romania and Bulgaria between 1968 and 1989?

• How did the economic, social and political challenges of the post-communist era in any of the central or eastern European country shape their chances for continuous progress between 1989 and 2000? 

V. Significance

• What was so significant in Alexander's II (1855–1881) reforms?

• Why did the Russo-Japanese War have a significant impact on social plus economic conditions of the country?

• To what extent Yeltsin's significant political status did stand behind the Soviet Russia collapse?

• How significant social plus political role did play Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel in Poland and Czechoslovakia between 1968 and 1989? 

VI. Change

• What was the most visible change in Russian society during the First World War plus the Tsar's crisis in 1917?

• How did political and economic developments change as a result of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945); post-war Soviet Union (1945–1953)?

• How changeful were political, economic (COMECON) and military (the Warsaw Pact, 1945–1955) motives, extent and nature of Soviet control in central and eastern Europe between 1945 and 1955?

• What causes, developments plus consequences did stand behind the Soviet's collapse that in the same time begin changes in central and eastern Europe?