My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: Stalin's Russia, 1924-53
Robin Bunce, Laura Gallagher
Language: English
Pages: 114
ISBN: B00IIAZGRQ
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Written by senior examiners and experienced teachers of the course, this student revision workbook for Edexcel AS History Unit 1: Stalin's Russia 1924-53 closely combines course content with revision activities and advice on exam technique. This allows students the opportunity to improve the skills needed to perform well in exam conditions through interacting with the content they need to revise. In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for students to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam.
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the town of Kazan indicates that local people used the opportunity of the Terror to turn against the Party. Evidently, Stalin’s goal was to rid the Party of his rivals, and the goal of local people was to punish corrupt communists. As a result, in both ways, Communist Party members were the main victims of the Great Terror. Turning assertion into argument See here Below are a sample exam-style question and two assertions. Read the question and then add a justification to each of the assertions
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of a large section of the Party. Kamenev Head of the Moscow Party • He had the loyalty of a large section of the Party. Impact on the leadership struggle Party positions played a significant role in the leadership struggle. Stalin’s roles were seen as mundane, and yet they gained him the power of patronage within the Party. In 1923, Stalin appointed approximately 30 per cent of delegates to the Party Congress. This figure grew every year, giving Stalin increasing control over important
1928, the NEP had allowed steel production to recover to 1913 levels, that is to say 4 million tonnes were produced. However, iron production under the NEP was still considerably less than it had been before the First World War: iron production in 1913 had been 4.2 million tonnes, whereas in 1928 it was only 3.3 million tonnes. What is more, grain production under the NEP fell in 1927 and only partially recovered in 1928. Clearly, the failure of the NEP played an important role in Stalin’s
the ruler of Soviet Russia. Simple essay style Below is a sample exam-style question. Use your own knowledge and the information on the opposite page to produce a plan for an answer to this question. Choose four general points, and provide three pieces of specific information to support each point. Once you have planned your essay, write the introduction and conclusion for the essay. The introduction should list the points to be discussed in the essay. The conclusion should summarise the key