The Tribes have merged. The challenges get harder. How many of us will be victorious? Who will survive? IB Survivor has begun. We will start the fall semester with the Russian Revolution and digging into your History IAs in earnest. You should have at least an initial draft of your Plan of Investigation in hand when we regroup in August. (As a gentle reminder you should also be working on all those other IB things like EE, CAS hours, TOK papers, Group 4,etc, the IB ad nauseam ...)
I will be working to get any back log of material back to you. I am a tortoise at this point -- slow and steady, but hopefully soon.
Please complete the chapter from Acton's Russia: the Tsarist and Soviet Legacy: Ch. 6, The end of the Russian Empire. It will also be good (read expected) for you to read one of the following titles on the Russian Revolution:
Fitzpatrick, Shelia. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932. Oxford Press. 1982.
Thompson, John M. Revolutionary Russia, 1917. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1981.
Service, Robert. Studies in European History: The Russian Revolution 1900 - 1927.Humanities Press International. 1990.
Dupee, F. W. ed. The Russian Revolution: the Overthrow of Tzarism and the Triumph of the Soviets from The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky. Anchor Books. 1959.
Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution. Vintage Books. 1991.
This is the year it all comes together. Welcome aboard! Welcome back! Keep at it and in the end, you will all survive and hopefully be better for the journey.
WD
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