Oxford AQA History: A Level and AS Component 2: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953
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English
ISBN
9780198363828
Contents
Introduction to features
AQA History specification overview
Introduction to the Oxford AQA History series
Timeline
Introduction
PART ONE: AS AND A LEVEL: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF STALIN, 1917–1929
SECTION 1: Dissent and revolution, 1917
1 The condition of Russia before the revolution of February/March 1917
The Tsar and political authority
The Russian war effort
The economic and social state of Russia
Discontent in Russia
Summary
5 The consolidation of the Communist dictatorship
The establishment of one-party control
The removal of the Constituent Assembly
The ending of involvement in the First World War
The consolidation of the one-party state
Summary
9 The power vacuum and power struggle
Ideology and the nature of leadership
Lenin’s testament
Divisions and contenders for power: Stalin
Divisions and contenders for power: Trotsky and the Left
Divisions and contenders for power: Bukharin and the Right
Summary
2 The February/March revolution of 1917
The causes and course of the February/March revolution
Issues of leadership and the Tsar’s abdication
The establishment of the Dual authority: the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet
Summary
3 Developments between the revolutions of 1917
The return of Lenin
Lenin’s ideology and the April Theses
The July Days
The Kornilov coup and the role of the Provisional Government and Trotsky
Lenin and the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party
Trotsky and the final preparations for revolution
Summary
4 The October/November 1917 revolution
The causes, course and extent of the October 1917 revolution
Leadership and the establishment of Bolshevik authority under Sovnarkom
The consolidation of Bolshevik authority
Lenin’s decrees and actions to December
Summary
SECTION 2: Bolshevik consolidation, 1918–1924
6 The Civil War
The causes of the Civil War
The role of Trotsky
The murder of the Tsar
Reasons for the Red Army victory
Government and control in wartime
Summary
7 Economic and social developments
State capitalism
Conditions in cities and countryside during the Civil War
War communism
The Red Terror
The New Economic Policy
Summary
8 Foreign relations and the attitudes of foreign powers
Foreign intervention in the Civil War
The Comintern
The Russo-Polish War
Ending isolation: discussions leading to the Treaty of Rapallo
International recognition and the repercussions of the Zinoviev Letter
Lenin’s rule by 1924
Summary
SECTION 3: Stalin’s rise to power, 1924–1929
10 Ideological debates and issues in the leadership struggle
NEP and industrialisation
‘Permanent revolution’ or ‘Socialism in One Country’
How and why Stalin became Party leader
The outcome for the other contenders
Summary
11 Economic developments
The ‘Great Turn’
The launch of the first Five Year Plan
The decision to collectivise
Summary
12 Government, propaganda and foreign relations
Stalin’s style of government
Propaganda and the beginning of the Stalinist cult
Stalin’s attitude to foreign powers
Changes in the Comintern
Summary
PART TWO: A LEVEL: STALIN’S RULE, 1929–1953
SECTION 4: Economy and society, 1929–1941
13 Agricultural and social developments in the countryside
Voluntary and forced collectivisation
State farms and mechanisation
The impact of collectivisation on the kulaks and other peasants and the famine of 1932–1934
The success of collectivisation
Summary
17 Dictatorship and Stalinism
The machinery of state terror, the NKVD and the early purges
Kirov’s murder, 1934
The show trials
The Stalin constitution, 1936
Summary
21 The Great Patriotic War and its impact on the Soviet Union, 1941–1945
Operation Barbarossa and the Stalinist reaction
The course of the Great Patriotic War
The USSR under occupation and during the fight-back
The Soviet war economy
Summary
14 Industrial and social developments in towns and cities
Gosplan and the organisation, aims and results of the first three Five Year Plans
New industrial centres and projects and the involvement of foreign companies
The Stakhanovites and working and living conditions for managers, workers and women
The success of the Five Year Plans
Summary
15 The development of the Stalin cult
The cult of personality
Literature, the arts and socialist realism
Propaganda
Summary
16 The social and economic condition of the Soviet Union by 1941
The strengths and weaknesses of the economy by 1941
The strengths and weaknesses of society by 1941
The situation on the outbreak of war in 1941
Summary
SECTION 5: Stalinism, politics and control, 1929–1943
18 The Yezhovshchina
Mass terror and repression at local levels
Mass terror and repression at central level
The gulags and the treatment of national minorities
The end of the purges and the death of Trotsky
The responsibility for and impact of the terror and purges
Summary
19 Culture and society
The impact of Stalinism on the Church, women, young people and working men
Urban and rural differences
Socialist man and woman
The impact of cultural change
Similarities and differences between Lenin’s and Stalin’s USSR
Summary
20 Stalin and international relations
Stalin and international relations, 1929–41
Soviet entry into the League of Nations
Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War
Soviet reaction to Western appeasement and Japanese aggression
The Nazi-Soviet Pact and its outcome, 1929–41
Summary
SECTION 6: The Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s dictatorship, 1941–1953
22 The defeat of the Germans
Reasons for the defeat of Germans and the results of victory
Post-war reconstruction
Summary
23 ‘High Stalinism’, 1945–1953
Dictatorship and totalitarianism
Renewed Terror
The Leningrad affair, purges and the Doctors’ plot
Summary
24 The transformation of the Soviet Union’s international position
The emergence of a ‘superpower’
The formation of a Soviet bloc
Conflict with the United States and the capitalist West
Stalin’s death
Stalin’s legacy at home and abroad
Summary
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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