Use all available resources at your disposal, those included in the activity itself, as well as the notes you took from the Kognity text.
Keep in mind when you're answering and addressing the questions within the activity:
- How might these methods of establishing the state tie back to the conditions under which the state emerged? Discussing the methods and their connection to the conditions is a wonderful strategy as this will allow you to make analytical claims related to success/failure of certain strategies.
- Am I providing specific enough evidence or am I providing vague overviews of concepts/topics? E.G. if I am discussing the means of propaganda and mention newspapers this is vague. But if I mention Pravda, Izvetia, Bednota, and Trud I am providing specific evidence. If I mention specific articles within these, I am really getting to the heart of history.
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More Digital Archives
Internet History Sourcebook of Russian Revolution:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook39.asp
Variety of sites related to Russian Revolution:
https://1917resources.aseees.hcommons.org/resources/digital-documents-and-images/
Variety of sites hosting primary sources - many in Russia, if digitized (not a photo of text), many can be translated into English by right clicking on the page:
https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Russian_Revolution,_Civil_War_and_USSR_1917-1991
Has narrative along with documents related to various topics in Russian history:
https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-revolution-documents/
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History (archive of primary sources):
http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/
Wilson Center Archives:
Wilson Center Digital Archive - Mitrokhin Collection (KGB officer, born in 1922, personal notes on archival evidence - work as an archivist). Most of the sources contain information for AFTER 1918, but it could be a resource to bookmark for the future.