Enable students to succeed in their exam with Stalin's Russia 1924-53. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D4, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure a higher grade.

Stalin's Russia, 1924-53 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D4 examination, including:

* Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: RUSSIA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Including - Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century

* Chapter 2: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
Including - Stalin and Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin; world revolution vs. socialism in one country; the industrialisation debate; the power struggle

* Chapter 3: TRANSFORMING THE SOVIET UNION
Including - Collectivisation; the Five Year Plans; industrialisation; changing role of women, the family and domestic life, education

* Chapter 4: PERSECUTION AND CONTROL
Including - Causes and impact of the Terror; the purges; control of culture; cult of personality

* Chapter 5: THE MAKING OF A SUPERPOWER
Including - Preparation for war; the course of the war; impact of the war; the reasons for Russian victory; the emergence of the Soviet Union as a superpower

* Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS

* Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

* Index