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Includes:: access to quick quizzes at www.hodderplus.co.uk/myrevisionnotes CONTENTS: Section 1: The struggle for power 1924-29 The contenders for power Powerbases Ideology: the great industrialisation debate Ideology: foreign policy Making & breaking alliances Devious tactics Exam focus Section 2: Transforming the Soviet Union
- collectivisation & industrialisation Causes of modernisation Collectivisation & its consequences First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1938) Third Five-Year Plan (1938-1941) The Great Retreat: women The Great Retreat: family & education Exam focus Section 3: Persecution & control
- the totalitarian regime Causes of the Great Terror Moscow show trials Yezhovshchina The impact of the Terror Socialist realism Cult of Personality Exam focus Section 4: The making of a superpower
- the impact of the Second World War The coming of the war Cost of the war Reasons for victory: Russia at war Reasons for victory: military campaigns & Allied support Superpower Exam focus