IA History Help

[natalial98]

Hey I am stuggling with my history paper. Can you tell me if question do you: How and to what extend Russian minority enriched and influenced cultural development of city of Lodz during 19th and beginning of 20th century? or To what Russian minority in Lodz contributed to the development of the city in 19th and 20th century? are they good topic for IA because I am not sure ?

[Nomenclature]

I'd recommend you be extremely cautious with this topic and make sure that there is a viable historical question that can be answered, and not just an anthropological overview. Otherwise, don't do it.

How and to what extent did the Russian minority enrich and influence the cultural development of city of Lodz during 19th and beginning of 20th century?

What do you mean by cultural development? I am not familiar with the topic, but if there are no concrete events then I would recommend you don't do it. Additionally, statistics will be hard to find (perhaps a census) but even if you manage to get there it probably won't reveal a lot. Your history IA should revolve around concrete events. That's not to say that your paper wouldn't be interesting, but IB depends on event driven investigations; they don't want vignettes of rustic or quotidian life. I say that as someone who didn't use a concrete event and my examiners marked me down. You have to prove something, and just by their inherent nature cultural changes are hard to solidly prove as being caused by x and can't be quantified or even really measured. Does that make sense?

[natalial98]

Yes. I will have to probably change the topic. Sadly