A level History

Stalin's Russia

Section 1: The struggle for power 1924–29

• The contenders for power
• Powerbases
• Ideology: the great industrialisation debate
• Ideology: foreign policy
• Making and breaking alliances
• Devious tactics

Section 2: Transforming the Soviet Union – collectivisation and industrialisation

• Causes of modernisation
• Collectivisation and its consequences
• The First Five-Year Plan 1928–32
• The Second Five-Year Plan 1933–38
• The Third Five-Year Plan 1938–41
• The Great Retreat: women
• The Great Retreat: family and education

Section 3: Persecution and control – the totalitarian regime

• Causes of the Terror
• Moscow show trials
• Yezhovshchina
• The impact of the Terror
• Socialist Realism
• Cult of Personality

Section 4: The making of a superpower – the impact of the Second World War

• The coming of the war
• The cost of the war
• Reasons for victory: Russia at war
• Reasons for victory: military campaigns and Allied support
• Superpower