Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

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This title:

- Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications

- Contains authoritative and engaging content

- Includes thought-provoking key debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of historians

- Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt

This title is suitable for a variety of courses including:

- AQA: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-1953

This book is part of a book series called Access To History .

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ years.

There are 232 pages in this book. This is a study guide book. This book was published 2015 by Hodder Education .

Michael Lynch is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests are in modern European and Chinese history and he has authored and edited several titles in the Access to History series.

This book has the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Dissent and Revolution, 1917
• • 1: The structure of government
  • 2: Russia at war, 1917
  • 3: The February Revolution, 1917
  • 4: The Dual Authority and continued unrest
  • 5: The October Revolution, 1917
• Chapter 2: The Bolshevik Consolidation of Power, 1917-24
• • 1: The establishment of government and power
  • 2: Peace with Germany
  • 3: Civil war and foreign relations 1918-24
  • 4: War Communism and NEP, 1918-21
  • 5: Lenin, government and the Communist Party
• Chapter 3: Stalin's Rise to Power, 1924-29
• • 1: Stalin's record as a revolutionary before 1924
  • 2: The power struggle within the Communist Party
  • 3: `Permanent Revolution' versus `Socialism in One Country'
  • 4: Stalin's defeat of Trotsky and the Left
  • 5: Stalin's defeat of the Right
• Chapter 4: Stalin's Rule: Economy and Society, 1929-41
• • 1: Stalin's economic aims after 1929
  • 2: Collectivisation and the war against the peasantry
  • 3: Industrialisation - the first three Five-Year Plans
  • 4: Key debate
• Chapter 5: Stalin's Dictatorship, Power and Society, 1929-41
• • 1: The purges and the mechanisms of control
  • 2: Soviet totalitarianism and its impact on culture and society
  • 3: Stalin's cult of personality
  • 4: Stalin's foreign policy, 1933-41
• Chapter 6: The Great Patriotic War and High Stalinism
• • 1: Stalin as war leader
  • 2: The impact of the war on the Soviet Union
  • 3: High Stalinism in the USSR, 1945-53
  • 4: Stalin's legacy in 1953
  • 5: Key debate
• Chapter 7: Khrushchev and De-Stalinisation, 1953-64
• • 1: Khrushchev's rise to power, 1953-58
  • 2: De-Stalinisation and reform
  • 3: Khrushchev and the Soviet economy
  • 4: Khrushchev's fall, 1964