braindead Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Hey, so my history teacher told us a while back that it'd help show better understanding and knowledge if we can namedrop one or two historians and small quotes (even paraphrased) into our essays. Anyone got any good and short historian quotes regarding:Failure of collective security (1918-1936)Mao Tse Tung social/foreign/economic policyTsars Alexader II, III, Nicholas IIAnd good luck to any other history buffs taking the exams tomorrow! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
decemberr94 Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 I've just revised historiography for the Tsars, so here's the historians I'm going to use at least:Alexander II - J. Westwood: "With the exception of Kruschev, no Russian leader did so much to reduce the suffering of the Russian people."- T. Emmons: (about the emanicipation of the serfs) "The greatest piece of state-directed engineering in modern Europen history before the 20th century."- A. Rieber: Alexanders reforms was solely due to military needs- J. Greenville: (about the emanicipation of the serfs) "A cruel joke"- E. Crankshaw: (about Alexander II) "An inconsistent ruler without a discernible pattern." Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Award Winning Boss Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Name dropping historians is useless if they aren't used properly. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrowhead Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Name dropping historians is useless if they aren't used properly. Writing essays is useless if they aren't structured coherently. (Some things are obvious, no?) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Award Winning Boss Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Name dropping historians is useless if they aren't used properly. Writing essays is useless if they aren't structured coherently. (Some things are obvious, no?)I wish. A common problem is that people throw around historians just because they can. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
braindead Posted May 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 Well I don't intend to, so don't worry. decemberr94 those are actually pretty handy, I'm probably going to end up answering a Tsar question tomorrow at some point, so thanks Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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