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1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 (AQA A Level History)

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Autocracy, Reform and Revolution: Russia, 1855–1894

  1. Russia in 1855: Political, Social and Economic Conditions
  2. The Impact of the Crimean War on Russia, 1853–1856
  3. Alexander II: Emancipation and Domestic Reform, 1855–1866
  4. Alexander II: Reaction and Assassination, 1866–1881
  5. Alexander III: Reaction and Repression, 1881–1894
  6. Russification and the Treatment of National Minorities
  7. Opposition to Tsarism: Ideas, Ideologies and the Intelligentsia
  8. The Tsarist Response to Opposition: Censorship, the Okhrana and Repression
  9. Economic Development Under the Tsars: Industrialisation to 1892
  10. The Rural Economy in Tsarist Russia: Land, Peasants and Agriculture
  11. Social Developments and Class Structure in Tsarist Russia to 1894
  12. The Russian Orthodox Church and Cultural Developments to 1894

The Collapse of Autocracy: Russia, 1894–1917

  1. Nicholas II: Character, Rule and the Condition of Russia, 1894–1905
  2. The Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 Revolution
  3. The October Manifesto, Fundamental Laws and the Dumas, 1905–1914
  4. Economic Development Under Witte and Stolypin, 1892–1914
  5. Working and Living Conditions in Russia by 1914
  6. Cultural Changes in Russia by 1914: Women, Education and the Arts
  7. Opposition to Tsarism by 1914: Moderates, Liberals and Radicals
  8. Russia in the First World War, 1914–1917: The Road to Revolution
  9. The February/March Revolution, 1917: The Fall of the Tsar
  10. Russia Under the Provisional Government, 1917
  11. The Bolshevik Seizure of Power, October 1917

The Emergence of Communist Dictatorship, 1917–1941

  1. Lenin’s Government: Building the One-Party State, 1917–1924
  2. The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921: Causes, Events and Consequences
  3. War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP), 1918–1928
  4. State Control of the Economy: From the NEP to the Command Economy
  5. How Did Stalin Gain Power? The Leadership Struggle, 1924–1929
  6. Stalin’s Five-Year Plans, 1928–1941: Rapid Industrialisation
  7. Agricultural Collectivisation: Stalin’s War on the Peasants
  8. Stalin’s Dictatorship: Terror, the Secret Police and the Gulag
  9. The Purges of the 1930s: The Great Terror and Its Consequences
  10. Soviet Control of Television and Film in the USSR: Propaganda and Censorship
  11. Art in the USSR: From Avant-Garde to Socialist Realism
  12. Soviet Attacks on Religion: Communism vs the Church
  13. Treatment of National Minorities in the USSR
  14. The Status of Soviet Women in Towns and the Countryside
  15. Soviet Attitudes Toward the Family and Youth
  16. The Growth of Education in the USSR: Literacy, Schools and Universities
  17. The Condition of the Soviet Union by 1941

The Stalinist Dictatorship and Reaction, 1941–1964

  1. Stalin and the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945
  2. Stalin’s Power After the War: High Stalinism, 1945–1953
  3. Khrushchev and De-Stalinisation: Reform and the Secret Speech
  4. Khrushchev’s Economic Reforms: Industry, Agriculture and the Virgin Lands Scheme
  5. Social and Cultural Changes Under Khrushchev: The Thaw and Its Limits
  6. Opposition to Khrushchev and His Fall From Power, 1964
  7. The Condition of the Soviet Union by 1964
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