HIS 242
1905 Paragraph Assignment
Image of Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978), one of Russia's greatest ballerinas; she was already dancing at the Mariinskii Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1905.
Read
the Imperial Manifesto of October 1905
and the Fundamental Laws of
April 1906 and answer the following question in a paragraph:
Citing specific evidence from the Imperial Manifesto and the Fundamental Laws (not from the textbook), assess whether the Manifesto and the Laws established a constitutional regime in Russia.
If you have not already done so, you can review the remarks by Professor Evans on 1905.
Your paragraph should be about one-half page in length, double-spaced with one-inch margins, font size 10 or 12; it should contain a concise topic sentence that directly responds to the assigned question (no need to define terms or cite a dictionary) and use direct, quoted material to support your points. You may consider submitting a draft of your assignment to your instructor for feedback before submitting the assignment for a grade. Please send some specific questions that you would like answered about your draft. The questions can be general (Is my thesis/first sentence clear?) or specific (Is the phrase, "Chardin was jeweller," written correctly?).