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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 CENTURYIncluding – Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century• Chapter 2: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWERIncluding – Stalin and Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin; world revolution vs. socialism in one country; the industrialisation debate; the power struggle• Chapter 3: TRANSFORMING THE SOVIET UNIONIncluding – Collectivisation; the Five Year Plans; industrialisation; changing role of women, the family and domestic life, education• Chapter 4: PERSECUTION AND CONTROLIncluding – Causes and impact of the Terror; the purges; control of culture; cult of personality• Chapter 5: THE MAKING OF A SUPERPOWERIncluding – 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