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Did anybody else find those questions really specific? I looked at all the questions in the past papers and they tended to be much more broad, examining either 1917 - 1928 or 1928 - 1945... and then they give us these really specific questions !!!! I did the question on the great patrioitic war because I didn't know anything about the debate, what did other people do?
 

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i did the great patriotic war as well
i didn't like how they made it to do with communism and soviety society
i had no idea about Lenins death and modernisation
so that left me with the Great Patriotic War
 

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Lenin's death (1924) to modernisation and succession (1928) essentially. Very narrow.
 

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yeah they were rather specific compared to the previous years

i hate - absolutly hated - the patriotic war so i did the death of lenin and the leadership struggle / modernistation deabte - looked a powerstuggle adn teh buckarin/stalin/trotsky debate

mmm but yeah deffiently different to waht they have previously done
 

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MissSavage29 said:
yeah they were rather specific compared to the previous years

i hate - absolutly hated - the patriotic war so i did the death of lenin and the leadership struggle / modernistation deabte - looked a powerstuggle adn teh buckarin/stalin/trotsky debate

mmm but yeah deffiently different to waht they have previously done
I did what Stalin did after Lenin's death to attain power and grow his power base:
- Using the Secretariat
- His eulogy at Lenin's funeral
- Making sure Trotters didn't rock up
- Defusing Lenin's testament about how Stalin was shit

Then went into the powerstruggle and debates about the NEP...
Mentioned Urals-Siberian Method and 'Socialism in one country' as well. How these were a very clear deviation from original Marxist-Leninist doctrine etc. Kept referring to Marxist-Leninist doctrine lol :p
 

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They were so narrow, maybe thats why they gave us 4 page booklets for them
 

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Well,
Loved WW1
Loved Trotsky
Loved Ireland
HATED Russia!! Talk about obscure questions!!

Overall, 13 booklets. good content, pretty happy!! :p
 

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I thought the questions were shithouse... but since there was no real choice I went with the debate. I think I summed it up pretty well though... oh and how good was the biography on trots. In the infamous words of the captain:

"Yaarrr... I nailed that one about the houseboats"
 

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MissSavage29 said:
yeah they were rather specific compared to the previous years

i hate - absolutly hated - the patriotic war so i did the death of lenin and the leadership struggle / modernistation deabte - looked a powerstuggle adn teh buckarin/stalin/trotsky debate

mmm but yeah deffiently different to waht they have previously done
waddes...hush...lol...i actually wrote 6 booklets for all three sections NO MORE MODERN HISTORY EVER hehehe...love ya xox
 

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rach_100 said:
Well,
Loved WW1
Loved Trotsky
Loved Ireland
HATED Russia!! Talk about obscure questions!!

Overall, 13 booklets. good content, pretty happy!! :p
hey! you do exactly the same topics as me! *high five*

yeah, i did the first one cos i know absolutely nothing about the war, and even then i spent half my essay talking about stuf pre-1924 :( it was all part of my development of point.... :uhhuh:
 

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chill mate i did the lenin's death one 'cause i didn't even touch great patriotic war and i spent a sizeable amount of last night venting on the hsc advice line to some teacher named steve.

but my russia answer was one four page page booklet. :D
 

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I thought the questions were good. A bit too much to talk about if anything..
 
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russia was way too narrow - i do cold war, so compared to that russia was way way too narrow...

did Lenin's death question but i didnt really know enough 2 answer properly - only did it because we barely looked at GPW so had 0 to say about it

i thought trotskyy was good coz it was pretty predictable and WWI was great coz it was easy, so straight forward..but then again section 1 pretty much always is
 

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For a 20 mark question it's not too bad. For the GPW you could push the boundaries a bit and go past 45 - talking about how it pushed the people further into Stalin's grip and that the purges etc. went on unabated.
 

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I'd studied a lot about Stalinism as Totalitariansm so I tied that in. It worked lol :)
But I knew a lot about the modernisation debate so it was pretty :)
 

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did anyone use historians quotes for the russia question?????

...our teacher told us it was important to include at least 2 or 3 but i only could think of one....i did the modernisation/lenins death question...i had an ok argument but it was a bit of ramble to add more to it....oh well...
 

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i used 2 quotes i knew and then made up a third one...

the questions they asked were kind of a shock and all i could think of was "how the hell am i going to answer either of these?"

to make the matter worse, i just talked to my history teacher and she said i should have done the first question and manipulated it so i talked about industrialisation and collectivisation. I can see why she said that, cause I do know a lot of about modernisation, but I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LENIN'S DEATH OR THE DEBATE so I don't know how I could have done well by only answering half the question... plus she told us that if they ever asked us a question on the debate we should leave it because we'd get far too confused. UURGH hypocrite!!!

AAAAAArgh
 

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They were heaps specific. My modern teacher chucked a fit when she read the russia questions. considering the past hsc questions were heaps more broad, and predictable. To be honest tho i didnt find it toooooo mean. Luckily i had studied Stalin and totalitarianism really well, so i tied in the 5 year plans and collectivisation into the modernisation debate. I also touched on War Communism and the NEP. so fingers crossed!!!
rest of exam was tops. how awesome was WW1??? u didnt even have to KNOW modern history to do it lol. sooo easy :eek:D
 

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