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Book SynopsisDepend on SHP''s comprehensive and best-selling core texts to enrich your understanding of A Level History.
SHP Advanced History Core Texts are the Schools History Project''s acclaimed books for A level History.
They offer:
- clear and penetrating narrative - comprehensively explaining the content required for examination success
- thought provoking and relevant activities that explore the content and help students think analytically about the subject
- thorough exam preparation through carefully designed tasks that address the distinctive requirements of A Level history including guidance in essay writing and source-based investigations.
- a wide range of revision strategies including structured content summaries
Additional features include:
- A focus route pathway for independent learners
- Learning Trouble Spots - which address common misunderstandings
- diagrammatic summaries of key areas of content and historical issues
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Review of the first edition:
'This is a great book. You might have read Ron Grant's review of Hite and Hinton's Weimar and Nazi Germany in the same series. This is written at the same cracking standard.'
* Andrew Hunt, Scottish Association of History, Resources Review *
Table of Contents
- : SECTION 1: WHY DID THE TSARIST REGIME COLLAPSE IN 1917?
- 1.: What were the challenges facing the tsarist regime at the end of the nineteenth century?
- 2.: 1905
- 3.: Could Tsarism have survived? 1906–1917
- : SECTION 2: WHY WERE THE BOLSHEVIKS SUCCESSFUL IN OCTOBER 1917?
- 4.: Was the Provisional Government doomed from the beginning?
- 5.: Was the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 inevitable?
- : SECTION 3: THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE BOLSHEVIK STATE 1917–24
- 6.: How did the Bolsheviks survive the first few months in power?
- 7.: How did the Bolsheviks win the Civil War?
- 8.: How was the Bolshevik state consolidated between 1921 and 1924?
- : SECTION 4: FROM LENIN TO STALIN
- 9.: How significant is Lenin’s contribution to history?
- 10.: How did Stalin emerge as the sole leader of Russia?
- : SECTION 5: HOW DID STALIN TRANSFORM THE ECONOMY OF THE USSR IN THE 1930S?
- 11.: Why did Stalin make the Great Turn?
- 12.: Was collectivisation a success?
- 13.: How well planned were the Five-Year Plans?
- : SECTION 6: HOW DID STALIN CONTROL THE USSR?
- 14.: How far was Stalin responsible for the Great Terror?
- 15.: The cult of the personality
- : SECTION 7: SOVIET SOCIETY IN THE 1920S AND 1930S
- 16.: Were Soviet culture and society transformed by the October Revolution?
- 17.: Culture and society in a decade of turmoil
- : SECTION 8: FROM PARIAH TO SAVIOUR: THE SOVIET UNION AND EUROPE 1921–1945
- 18.: Alone in a hostile world: how did Soviet foreign policy develop between 1921 and 1941?
- 19.: How was the Soviet Union able to turn disaster into victory in the Great Patriotic War?
- : SECTION 9: STALIN'S FINAL YEARS AND CONCLUSION
- 20.: Stalin’s final years 1945–53
- 21.: Conclusion
