Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D4: Stalin’s Russia, 1924–53 (Student Support Materials for History) - Softcover

Gregory, Ben; Killin, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007457405 ISBN 13: 9780007457403

Publisher: Collins Educational, 2012

Synopsis

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

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• Publisher: Collins Educational
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007457405
• ISBN 13: 9780007457403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144