OCR A an AS History Unit Y216 Scheme of Work

UNIT Y210: RUSSIA 1645-1741

NOTE: BASED ON 2X 50 MINUTE LESSONS PER WEEK
TERMS BASED ON 6 TERM YEAR.

Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources
Russia 1645-1698
1 1-2 Russia in 1645, social  Problems of geography,  Alexis: Tsar of All the
and economic remoteness, communication Russias, Longworth
backwardness,  Alexis’ background, early life, and
problems with the Tsar; aims  Fractured Europe
personality and rule of  (Blackwell), Sturdy
Alexis, legalisation of  Rioting and rebellions
serfdom 1649, church  Morozov’s unpopularity  Europe Unfolding, Stoye
reform and schism  Making of Russian
1649, growth of western Effects of legalisation of serfdom
influence and trade Absolutism, Dukes

rule of Feodor, Golitsyn  Abolition of the mestnichestvo  The Tsars (Access to

and relations with the  Moscow Uprising of 1682 History), Rady

3 Boyars  Actions of Golitsyn especially with  Making of Russian

the armed forces Absolutism, Dukes

 Unpopularity of the boyars

accession of Peter and  Support for Peter from  Access to History: Peter the

Ivan, 1682 and regency boyars Great, Swift

of Sophia, role of  Strelsi rebellion  Peter the Great (Lancaster

Streltsi  Autocratic rule of Sophia Pamphlets), Lee
4  The Tsars (Access to

History), Rady

 Making of Russian

Absolutism, Dukes

5 early life and upbringing  Temperament, education and  Access to History: Peter the

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Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources

The reforms of Peter of Peter at views of Peter Great, Swift
the Great 1698-1725 Preobrazhenskoe, his  Family background and  Peter the Great (Lancaster
character and
personality rivalries Pamphlets), Lee

attempted coup of  Reasons for coup and  Access to History: Peter the

Sophia 1689 reasons for failure Great, Swift

5  Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee

 Making of Russian

Absolutism, Dukes

direct rule of Peter and  Effects of failure of  Access to History: Peter the

campaigns against campaigns against Azov Great, Swift

6 Azov  Peter the Great (Lancaster

Pamphlets), Lee

embassy to the West  Reasons for embassy and  Access to History: Peter the

6 1697–1698 extent of success or failure Great, Swift
 Peter the Great (Lancaster

Pamphlets), Lee

7 Consolidation of Peter’s  Reasons for, success of and  Access to History: Peter the

power, relations with consequences of reforms Great, Swift

boyars, reform of dress  Peter the Great (Lancaster

and beards, Table of Pamphlets), Lee

Ranks  Modernisation of Russia, Dixon

2 modernisation of  Reasons for, success of and  Access to History: Peter the
8 Great, Swift
alphabet and calendar; consequences of reforms
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee

 Modernisation of Russia,
Dixon

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Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources

reforms in central and  Reasons for, success of and  Access to History: Peter the
consequences of reforms Great, Swift
local administration,
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
Senate, colleges, new Pamphlets), Lee

8-9 provinces, fiscal  Modernisation of Russia,
reforms, municipal Dixon

government

9-10 reforms of the Church;  Reasons for, success of and  Access to History: Peter the
10-11 reform of army and consequences of reforms Great, Swift
11-12 navy
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
census of 1719  Details of census, effect on Peter’s Pamphlets), Lee
reforms
 Modernisation of Russia,
education;  Role of private enterprise and Dixon
developments in
industry and agriculture; mercantilism  Access to History: Peter the
position of peasants; St  ‘Forced industrialisation’ and Great, Swift
Petersburg
effects e.g. export of iron  Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee
Foreign relations 1645- 13 Alexis’s relations with  Russia-Persian war
1725 Zaporozhian Cossacks  Wars against Poland and Sweden  Modernisation of Russia,
and Poland Dixon
to 1667
 Access to History: Peter the
Great, Swift

 Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee

 Modernisation of Russia,
Dixon

 Alexis: Tsar of All the
Russias, Longworth

 Fractured Europe
(Blackwell), Sturdy

 Europe Unfolding, Stoye
 The Tsars (Access to

History), Rady

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Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources

3 13-14 Influence of Golytsin  Campaigns in Crimea in 1687  Fractured Europe
and expedition to and 1689, reasons for failure (Blackwell), Sturdy
Crimea
 The Tsars (Access to
14 Relations with China  Terms of the treaty History), Rady
14-15 and Treaty of Nerchinsk  The border
 Subsequent relations e.g.  Fractured Europe
Peter’s aims in the (Blackwell), Sturdy
Baltic Treaty of Kyakhta
 The Tsars (Access to
 Great Northern War History), Rady
 Threat from Sweden
 Access to History: Peter the
15 war against Sweden,  Reasons for defeat Great, Swift

defeat at Narva,  Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee
invasion of Ingria and
 Access to History: Peter the
Livonia Great, Swift

 Peter the Great (Lancaster
Pamphlets), Lee

16 Swedish invasion 1707;  Reasons for failure against  Access to History: Peter the

Turkish war and loss of Ottomans Great, Swift

Azov 1711  Treaty of Pruth  Peter the Great (Lancaster

Pamphlets), Lee

16 military successes in  Reasons for success  Access to History: Peter the
Great, Swift
the Baltic and the Battle  Terms of the treaty
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
of Poltava and the Pamphlets), Lee

Treaty of Nystadt 1721;

17 reasons for Russian  Military, economic, social  Access to History: Peter the

successes and reasons for success Great, Swift

consequences of  Problems of territorial gains  Peter the Great (Lancaster

territorial gains Pamphlets), Lee

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Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources
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Peter’s campaign in  Campaign key features and  Access to History: Peter the
Persia and capture of consequences, e.g. for Russo- Great, Swift
Derbent and Baku Ottoman relations
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
Opposition and reaction 18-19 Revolt of Stenka Razin  Reasons for revolt Pamphlets), Lee
1645-1741 20  Open rebellion
resistance to  Failure of rebellion and brutality of  The Tsars (Access to
westernisation History), Rady
suppression
 Russian culture and folklore  Making of Russian
Absolutism, Dukes
4 21 revolt and destruction of  Conditions and treatment of the
 The Tsars (Access to
the Streltsi; Streltsi History), Rady
 Opposition to Peter the Great’s
 Modernisation of Russia,
accession Dixon

 Reasons for destruction of the  Access to History: Peter the
Great, Swift
Streltsi, extent of brutality of
 Making of Russian
suppression Absolutism, Dukes

22 the Old Believers  Reasons for split from Church  Peter the Great: The
23 Struggle for Power,
 Schism and suppression from Bushkovitch
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23 Peter the Great  Peter the Great: The
Struggle for Power,
Mazeppa  Reasons for Mazeppa’s desertion Bushkovitch

 Politicisation of the desertion,  Peter the Great: The
Struggle for Power,
reaction of the church Bushkovitch

  Access to History: Peter the
Great, Swift
Tsarevitch Alexis  Military career and self-exile
 Peter the Great (Lancaster
 Return to Moscow and execution

extent of westernisation  Influence of Germany

by 1725  Extent to which state and people

had been ‘westernised’

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Key Topic Term Week Number Indicative Content Extended Content Resources

24-25 problems of Russia in  Military expenditure under Pamphlets), Lee
 Modernisation of Russia,
the reigns of Catherine I Catherine I
Dixon
and Peter II, Anne and  Disorder under Peter II, family  Russia, People and Empire,
Ivan VI 1725–1741, the breakdown
‘German period’. Hosking
 Increasing influence of Germans  Modernisation of Russia,

under Anne, resentment of the Dixon
 Making of Russian

Absolutism, Dukes

local nobility

 Overthrow of Ivan VI

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