My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: Stalin's Russia, 1924-53

Summary:
Written by senior examiners and experienced teachers of the course, this student revision workbook for Edexcel AS History Unit 1: Stalin's Russia 1924-53 closely combines course content with revision activities and advice on exam technique. This allows students the opportunity to improve the skills needed to perform well in exam conditions through interacting with the content they need to revise.

In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for students to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam.

• Board specific revision guide which is tightly focussed on both the what you need to know and the how you need to apply it to do well in the examination.
• Written by examiners and teachers who know the common pitfalls and what the most effective focus for revision should be.
• Combines content knowledge with skills practice - allowing skills as well as content revision away from the classroom.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
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
Glossary
Timeline
Answers

About the Author(s):
Robin Bunce is a Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College in Cambridge and an examiner in history.
Laura Gallagher teaches history at Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge and is an examiner in history.

Readership:
AS history students studying this unit