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Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D4: Stalin's Russia, 1924-53
by Ben Gregory and Kerry Killin
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Stalin's Russia 1924-53. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D4, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure a higher grade.
Stalin's Russia, 1924-53 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D4 examination, including:
* Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: RUSSIA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Including - Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century
* Chapter 2: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
Including - Stalin and Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin; world revolution vs. socialism in one country; the industrialisation debate; the power struggle
* Chapter 3: TRANSFORMING THE SOVIET UNION
Including - Collectivisation; the Five Year Plans; industrialisation; changing role of women, the family and domestic life, education
* Chapter 4: PERSECUTION AND CONTROL
Including - Causes and impact of the Terror; the purges; control of culture; cult of personality
* Chapter 5: THE MAKING OF A SUPERPOWER
Including - Preparation for war; the course of the war; impact of the war; the reasons for Russian victory; the emergence of the Soviet Union as a superpower
* Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS
* Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
* Index
Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3: Russia in Revolution, 1881- 1924
by Ben Gregory
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Russia in Revolution 1881-1924. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D3, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure higher grades.
Russia in Revolution, 1881-1924: From Autocracy to Dictatorship covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3 examination, including:
* Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1881
Including - The Russian Empire: land and people; government
* Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE, 1881-1906
Including - Alexander III and repression, 1881-1894; peasant Russia before 1905; industrial development; Sergei Witte; the growth of opposition to Tsarism; Socialist Revolutionaries; Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; 1905 revolution
* Chapter 3: TSARISM'S LAST CHANCE, 1906-17
Including - Repression; reform; impact of war, 1914-1917; downfall of the Romanovs, February 1917
* Chapter 4: FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917
Including - The Provisional Government and its problems; Lenin and the April Theses; July Days and the Kornilov affair; Bolshevik seizure of power, October 1917
* Chapter 5: THE BOLSHEVIK CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, 1918-24
Including - The Bolsheviks in power, 1917-18; the Civil War; war communism and the NEP; politics and society in NEP Russia; Lenin's Russia in 1924
* Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS
* Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
* Index