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' & Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure higher grades. Russia in Revolution 1881-1924: From Autocracy to Dictatorship covers all the content & 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 & people; government * Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE 1881-1906 Including
- Alexander III & repression 1881-1894; peasant Russia before 1905; industrial development; Sergei Witte; the growth of opposition to Tsarism; Socialist Revolutionaries; Bolsheviks & 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 & its problems; Lenin & the April Theses; July Days & 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 & the NEP; politics & society in NEP Russia; Lenin's Russia in 1924 * Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS * Chapter 7: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS * Index