Cambridge IGCSE History: Depth study C — Russia, 1905–41

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Why did the Tsarist regime collapse in 1917?

  • 1.1 – The main features of Tsarist rule and Russian society before the First World War
  • 1.2 – The First World War and its impact on the Russian people
  • 1.3 – The March Revolution of 1917

• Topic 2 — How did the Bolsheviks gain power, and how did they consolidate their rule?

  • 2.1 – The Provisional Government and the Soviets, the growing power of revolutionary groups
  • 2.2 – Reasons for the failure of the Provisional Government
  • 2.3 – The Bolshevik seizure of power, the role of Lenin
  • 2.4 – Bolshevik rule, the Civil War and War Communism, and reasons for the Bolshevik victory
  • 2.5 – The Kronstadt Rising and the establishment of the New Economic Policy

• Topic 3 — How did Stalin gain and hold on to power?

  • 3.1 – Lenin’s death and the struggle for power
  • 3.2 – Reasons for Stalin’s emergence as leader by 1928
  • 3.3 – Stalin’s dictatorship: use of terror; the Purges
  • 3.4 – Stalin’s dictatorship: propaganda and official culture

• Topic 4 — What was the impact of Stalin’s economic policies?

  • 4.1 – The modernisation of Soviet industry; the Five-Year Plans
  • 4.2 – Collectivisation in agriculture
  • 4.3 – Life in the Soviet Union

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