A LevelHistoryAQAComponent 1: Breadth study1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964

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
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