Name: Access to History: Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894–1924, Fifth Edition
Price: 34.79 USD
ISBN: 9781510459359

Hodder Education

Michael Lynch

Access to History: Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894–1924, Fifth Edition

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Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)

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> Learn, remember and connect important events and people: An introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework

> Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams

> Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: Students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

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English

ISBN

9781510459359

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction: about this book

CHAPTER 1 Context: Russia in 1894

1 The land, the people and tsardom

2 The problem of reform

CHAPTER 2 Nicholas II’s early rule 1894–1905

1 Nicholas II: character and policies

2 Economic reform 1893–1903

3 The opponents of tsardom

4 The Russo-Japanese War 1904–5

5 The 1905 Revolution

Question practice

CHAPTER 3 Romanov rule 1906–14

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: Was tsardom already doomed by 1914?

Question practice

CHAPTER 4 War and revolution 1914–17

1 Why Russia went to 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: Why was there a February Revolution in 1917?

Question practice

CHAPTER 5 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 Bolshevik success

6 Key debate: What was the true character of the October Revolution?

Question practice

CHAPTER 6 The Bolshevik consolidation of power 1917–24

1 The Bolsheviks in power

2 The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly

3 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918

4 The Russian Civil War 1918–20

5 The foreign interventions 1918–20

6 Lenin’s methods for imposing control 1917–21

7 War Communism 1918–21

8 The Kronstadt Rising 1921

9 The New Economic Policy

Question practice

Exam focus: OCR

Exam focus: Pearson Edexcel

Timeline

Glossary of terms