Access to History: Russia 1894-1941 for OCR Second Edition
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9781471838323
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Chapter 1 Late Imperial Russia 1894–1905
1 The land, the people and tsardom
2 The problem of reform in Imperial Russia
3 Economic reform under Witte 1893–1903
4 The opponents of tsardom
5 The Russo-Japanese War 1904–5
6 The 1905 Revolution
Chapter 2 From revolution to war 1905–14
1 Economic policy under Stolypin
2 The dumas 1906–14
3 Growing tensions in Russia 1911–14
4 Russia’s foreign policy before 1914
5 The tsar’s position at the outbreak of war in 1914
6 Key debate
Chapter 3 From war to revolution 1914–17
1 Russia’s entry into the war in 1914
2 The impact of war on Russia
3 The growth of opposition to tsardom
4 The February Revolution 1917
5 Key debate
Chapter 4 1917: From Provisional Government to October Revolution
1 The Dual Authority
2 The return of the Bolsheviks
3 The Provisional Government and its problems
4 The October Revolution
5 Reasons for the Bolshevik success
6 Key debate
Chapter 5 Lenin’s government of Russia 1917–24
1 The Bolsheviks in power
2 Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
3 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
4 Russian Civil War 1918–20
5 Foreign interventions 1918–21
6 Lenin’s methods of imposing control 1917–21
7 War Communism 1918–21
8 Kronstadt Rising 1921
9 New Economic Policy (NEP)
10 Lenin’s legacy
11 Key debate
Chapter 6 Stalin’s rise to power 1924–9
1 Stalin’s character and background
2 The power struggle within the Communist Party
3 ‘Permanent Revolution’ versus ‘Socialism in One Country’
4 Stalin’s defeat of Trotsky and the Left
5 Stalin’s defeat of the Right
Chapter 7 Stalin and the Soviet economy 1929–41
1 Stalin’s economic aims after 1929
2 Collectivisation: the war against the peasantry
3 Industrialisation: the first three Five-Year Plans
4 Key debate
Chapter 8 Stalin’s dictatorship 1929–41
1 The purges
2 Stalin’s totalitarianism
3 Stalin and the cult of personality
4 Stalin’s foreign policy
5 Stalin’s record by 1941
6 Key debate
Study guide
Glossary of terms
Further reading
Index
Acknowledgements
Backcover
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