15 History work ideas for independent learning and revision

15 History work ideas for independent learning and revision

1. Go through the textbook and find the period we have just studied, create mind maps or flash cards on this.
2. Go through the textbook and do any tasks in textbook we have not done in class.
3. Write essay plans for possible essays (look in the revision guide, on exam board website or in textbook for examples).
4. Make a key word list for a topic you have studied with definitions.
5. RAG your notes, any that are red or amber improve using textbook, information sheets or books from reading list.
6. Rewrite a piece of work you have had feedback for taking into account feedback and seeing how else it could be improved.
7. Practice exam questions and review mark scheme to give yourself a mark.
8. Create a quiz and swap with a friend (make sure you make the answer sheet).
9. 5-5-1. Review a topic in 5 lines then 5 words then 1 word.
10. Create acronyms for topics especially those you find hard to remember.
11. Create a timeline of the course or module you are studying. Colour code different areas (e.g. political, economic, social, cultural, religious).
12. Make speed dating cards for any important individuals with their name, important dates, significance, death on them.
    
13. Go through handouts – highlight key terms, ideas dates. Make a poster with these key terms.
14. Use the online log in in your textbook to access the exam website.
15. Research topics using the internet.

Quizlet Russsia

Quizlet Russia

Nicholas II rule

1905 revolution

End of Romanov rule

PG and opponents

Who is who?

Timeline of key Russia dates

Time of key Russia dates

Use this timeline for your revision.
Look. Cover. Write. Check.
Test yourself!

1861	Emancipation of the Serfs
1881	Alexander II assassinated Alexander III succeeds as Tsar
1894	Nicholas II succeeded Alexander III as Tsar
1897	Lenin exiled to Siberia
1898	Formation of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1900	Formation of Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) Lenin joined RSDLP
1903	RSDLP split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks Communes no longer responsible for land tenure Trans-Siberian Railway completed
1904	Assassination of Interior Minister Plehve Liberal ‘Banquet Campaign’
1904–05	Russo-Japanese War
1905	‘Bloody Sunday’ Revolution: strikes, mutinies ‘Union of Unions’ formed End of redemption payments; peasants seize land October Manifesto St. Petersburg Soviet formed Troops returning from the war with Japan suppressed soviets
1906	Fundamental Laws Parties legalised
1906–07	First and Second Dumas dissolved after a few months
1906–11	Stolypin’s agricultural reforms
1906–17	Lenin in exile abroad
1906–07	Repression of Tsarism’s opponents
1907	Stolypin’s ‘coup’: Electoral Law restricting the franchise
1907–12	Third Duma
1910	New wave of strikes
1911	Assassination of Stolypin
1912	National insurance scheme Lena goldfields massacre
1912–13	Wars in the Balkans
1912–14	Fourth Duma
1914–18	Russia went to war against Germany and Austria
1914	Suspension of Fourth Duma
1915	Fourth Duma recalled June: Kadets and Octobrists formed the Progressive Bloc August: Tsar appointed himself Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Control of the government in the hands of Alexandra and Rasputin
1916	Murder of Rasputin
1917	February: Strike began at Putilov factories in Petrograd February Revolution March: Abdication of Tsar Provisional government set up March: Petrograd Soviet issues ‘Order No.1’ April: Return of Lenin: April Theses July Days July: Failure of the Kerensky Offensive August: Kornilov Revolt Trotsky joined Bolsheviks Bolshevik majorities in Petrograd and Moscow soviets Military Revolutionary Committee established October: Bolshevik seizure of power Sovnarkom established Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic set up November: Constituent Assembly Elections November: Decrees on Land and Workers’ Control December: Cheka founded
1918	January: Bolsheviks disbanded Constituent Assembly March: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Assassination attempt on Lenin July: Tsar and imperial family murdered Bolsheviks renamed (All-)Russian Communist Party (until 1925)
1918–21	War Communism
1919	Communist International Founded
1920	Russo-Polish War: Loss of western Ukraine
1921	Kronstadt Rebellion Tenth Party Congress – ban on factions Introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP)
1921–22	Famine
1922	Cheka renamed as GPU Stalin became General Secretary of the Central Committee USSR established
1922–23	Lenin suffered series of strokes
1923	‘Scissors Crisis’
1924	Lenin’s death USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) constitution agreed GPU expanded into OGPU