Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953 Second Edition (SHP Advanced History Core Texts)

by Chris Corin (Author), Chris Corin (Author), Terry Fiehn (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $40.77

  Depend 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
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  - 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
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  - diagrammatic summaries of key areas of content and historical issues
  - accessible summaries of recent historical debates.
  - active learning approaches, including decision-making exercises

  Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953
  this title is a comprehensive core text on Russian history from 1881 to the death of Stalin. It is a second edition of the bestselling Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. This second edition is extended to cover the Tsarist pre-revolutionary period.

  Major themes include
  - the nature of Tsarist rule in Russia and the causes and consequences of the 1905 revolution;
  - the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution in 1917;
  - the nature, the achievements and failures of Lenin's and Stalin's Communist regimes;
  - the ongoing historiographical debate about this period and the current reinterpretations of it.

  Other improvements for this second edition include more streamlined coverage of Stalin's foreign policy.