
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 1881Including – The Russian Empire: land and people; government• Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE, 1881–1906Including – 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, 1906–17Including – Repression; reform; impact of war, 1914–1917; downfall of the Romanovs, February 1917• Chapter 4: FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917Including – 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, 1918–24Including – 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
Page Count:
120
Publication Date:
2012-04-01
ISBN-10:
0007457391
ISBN-13:
9780007457397
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