Enable students to succeed in their exam with Stalin's Russia 1924-53. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D4, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure a higher grade. Stalin's Russia, 1924-53 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D4 examination, including: * Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: RUSSIA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY Including - Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century * Chapter 2: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER Including - Stalin and Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin; world revolution vs. socialism in one country; the industrialisation debate; the power struggle * Chapter 3: TRANSFORMING THE SOVIET UNION Including - Collectivisation; the Five Year Plans; industrialisation; changing role of women, the family and domestic life, education * Chapter 4: PERSECUTION AND CONTROL Including - Causes and impact of the Terror; the purges; control of culture; cult of personality * Chapter 5: THE MAKING OF A SUPERPOWER Including - Preparation for war; the course of the war; impact of the war; the reasons for Russian victory; the emergence of the Soviet Union as a superpower * Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS * Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS * Index

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