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Condition of Russia before the revolution
the Tsar and political authority; the war effort; the economic and social state of Russia; discontent
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The February/March revolution of 1917
causes and course of revolution; issues of leadership and the Tsar's abdication; the establishment of Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet; the workings of the Dual authority
26
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Developments between the revolutions
including: the return of Lenin; Lenin's ideology and the April Theses; the July Days; the Kornilov coup and the roles of both the Provisional Government and Trotsky; Lenin and the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party
45
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The October/November 1917 revolution
causes, course and extent of revolution; leadership and the establishment of Bolshevik authority; Sovnarkom and decrees and actions to December
16
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The consolidation of the Communist dictatorship
the establishment of one-party control; the removal of the Constituent Assembly; the ending of involvement in the First World War
26
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The civil war
causes and course; the role of Trotsky; the murder of the Tsar; the reasons for the Red victory; government and control in wartime
38
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Economic and social developments 1918-1924
state capitalism; social change; conditions in cities and countryside during the Civil War; war communism; the Red Terror: revolts of 1920–1921 including the Tambov revolt and Kronstadt rising; the NEP and its political and economic impact
61
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Foreign relations and attitudes of foreign powers
foreign intervention in the Civil War; Comintern; the Russo-Polish War; discussions leading to the Rapallo Treaty; official recognition and the repercussions of the 'Zinoviev letter'; Lenin's rule by 1924
33
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The power vacuum and power struggle
ideology and the nature of leadership; Lenin's testament; divisions and contenders for power: character, strengths and weaknesses of Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Kamenev, Rykov, Tomsky and Zinoviev
27
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Ideological debates and issues in the leadership struggle
NEP and industrialisation; 'permanent revolution' versus 'Socialism in One Country'; how and why Stalin became party leader and the outcome for the other contenders
30
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Economic developments 1924-1929
reasons for and impact of the 'Great Turn'; the economic shift; the launch of the first Five Year Plan and the decision to collectivise
20
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Government propaganda and the beginning of the Stalinist cult
Stalin's attitude to foreign powers: China; Germany and the Treaty of Berlin; changes in the Comintern
13
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Agricultural and social developments in the countryside 1929-1941
voluntary and forced collectivisation; state farms; mechanisation; the impact of collectivisation on the kulaks and other peasants; the famine of 1932–1934; the success of collectivisation
37
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Industrial and social developments in towns and cities
Gosplan; the organisation, aims and results of the first three Five Year Plans; new industrial centres and projects; the involvement of foreign companies; the working and living conditions of managers, workers and women; Stakhanovites; the success of the Five Year Plans
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Development of the Stalin cult
literature, the arts and other propaganda; Socialist Realism
19
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Social and economic condition of the Soviet Union by 1941
strengths and weaknesses
10
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Dictatorship and Stalinism
the machinery of state terror; the NKVD; the early purges; Kirov's murder; the show trials; the Stalin constitution
25
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The Yezhovshchina
mass terror and repression at central and local levels; treatment of national minorities; the gulags; the end of the purges; the death of Trotsky; responsibility for and impact of the Terror and purges
39
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Culture and society
church; women, young people and working men; urban and rural differences; 'socialist man' and the impact of cultural change; similarities and differences between Lenin's and Stalin's USSR
45
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Stalin and international relations
co-operation with Germany; entry into the League of Nations; pacts with France and Czechoslovakia; intervention in the Spanish Civil War; reaction to Western appeasement and Japanese aggression; the Nazi-Soviet Pact and its outcome
37
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The impact of the war on the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa and the Stalinist reaction; the course of the war; the USSR under occupation and the fight-back; the Soviet economy; mobilisation and evacuation of industry; foreign aid
66
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The defeat of the Germans
reasons and results; post-war reconstruction; industry and agriculture
45
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High stalinism
dictatorship and totalitarianism; renewed Terror; the NKVD under Beria; Zhdanovism and the cultural purge; Stalin's cult of personality; the Leningrad affair; purges and the Doctors' Plot
40
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The transformation of the Soviet Union's international position
the emergence of a 'superpower'; the formation of a soviet bloc; conflict with USA and the capitalist West; death of Stalin and Stalin's legacy at home and abroad
34
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