Access to History for the IB Diploma: Communism in Crisis 1976-89

Summary:

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma.

This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it to better fit the IB learner's needs. Each title in the series provides depth of content, focussed on specific topics in the IB History guide, and examination guidance on different exam-style questions - helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the topic alongside the skills they need to do well.

- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the IB History topic through an engaging, in-depth, reliable and up-to-date narrative - presented in an accessible way.

- Helps students to understand historical issues and examine the evidence, through providing a wealth of relevant sources and analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates.

- Gives students guidance on answering exam-style questions with model answers and practice questions

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 What you will study
2 How you will be assessed
3 About the book
Chapter 1 Communism in the USSR and China
1 Communism
2 The USSR from Lenin to Brezhnev
3 Mao's China 1949-76
Chapter 2 The struggle for power following Mao Zedong's death
1 The Gang of Four and their fall from power
2 Hua Guofeng in power 1976-81
3 The re-emergence of Deng Xiaoping 1973-8
Examination advice, practice and activities
Chapter 3 China under Deng Xiapong: economic policies and the Four Modernizations
1 The background to the Four Modernizations
2 The Four Modernizations up to 1989
3 Key debate: How successful were Deng Xiaoping's economic policies?
Examination advice, practice and activities
Chapter 4 China under Deng Xiapong: political changes 1979-89
1 Political changes
2 The road to Tiananmen Square
3 The events of 1989
4 Key debate: To what extent was Deng Xiaoping responsible for the deaths of the protestors?
Examination advice, practice and activities
Chapter 5 Domestic and foreign problems of the Brezhnev era
1 Politics, economy and society under Brezhnev
2 Key debate: Was Brezhnev's leadership to blame for Soviet stagnation from 1964 to 1982?
3 Soviet foreign relations under Brezhnev
4 The invasion of Afghanistan
5 Key debate: Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
6 The USSR in 1982
Examination advice, practice and activities
Chapter 6 Gorbachev's reforms and the consequences for the Soviet state
1 Gorbachev's domestic reforms
2 The consequences of perestroika and glasnost for the USSR
3 Key debate: To what extent did Gorbachev precipitate the USSR's downfall?
Examination advice, practice and activities
Chapter 7 The collapse of Soviet influence in eastern Europe
1 Soviet foreign policy and superpower relations 1985-9
2 The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the East German state
3 The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
4 The collapse of communist rule in Poland
5 Key debate: Why did communist rule in eastern Europe collapse at the end of the 1980s?
Examination advice, practice and activities
Timeline
Glossary
Further reading
Internal assessment

About the Author(s):

Dr. Yvonne Berliner teaches Latin American history at Washington State University, USA.  She has taught IB history and been the IBDP coordinator at the International School Nido de Aguilas in Santiago, Chile.  She is an IB history team leader and workshop leader.

Rakesh Pathak graduated with a degree in Modern History and English from Oxford University in 1996. He is currently Head of History at Felsted School in Essex.

Contributors:
Editor: Andy Dailey

Readership:
History IB Diploma students