内容説明
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Russia in Revolution, 1881--1924. This study aid contains all the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 1 Option D3, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from senior examiners on how to secure a higher grade. Russia in Revolution, 1881--1924: From Autocracy to Dictatorship covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3 examination, including: * Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1881 Including -- The Russian Empire: Land and People; Government. * Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE, 1881--1906 Including -- Alexander III and repression, 1881--1894; peasant Russia before 1905; industrial development; Sergei Witte; the growth of opposition to Tsarism; Socialist Revolutionaries; Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; 1905 revolution. * Chapter 3. TSARISM'S LAST CHANCE, 1906--17 Including -- Repression; reform; impact of war, 1914--1917; downfall of the Romanovs, February 1917. * Chapter 4: FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917 Including -- The Provisional Government and its problems; Lenin and the April Theses; July Days and the Kornilov affair; Bolshevik seizure of power, October 1917 * Chapter 5: THE BOLSHEVIK CONSOLIDATION OF POWER, 1918--24 Including -- The Bolsheviks in power, 1917--18; the Civil War; war communism and the NEP; politics and society in NEP Russia; Lenin's Russia in 1924. * Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS * Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS * Index