Edexcel AS history.: (Stalin's Russia, 1924-53)

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CONTENTS:

Section 1: The struggle for power 1924-29
The contenders for power
Powerbases
Ideology: the great industrialisation debate
Ideology: foreign policy
Making and breaking alliances
Devious tactics
Exam focus

Section 2: Transforming the Soviet Union - collectivisation and industrialisation
Causes of modernisation
Collectivisation and its consequences
First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)
Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1938)
Third Five-Year Plan (1938-1941)
The Great Retreat: women
The Great Retreat: family and education
Exam focus

Section 3: Persecution and control - the totalitarian regime
Causes of the Great Terror
Moscow show trials Yezhovshchina
The impact of the Terror
Socialist realism
Cult of Personality
Exam focus

Section 4: The making of a superpower - the impact of the Second World War
The coming of the war
Cost of the war
Reasons for victory: Russia at war
Reasons for victory: military campaigns and Allied support
Superpower
Exam focus