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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
12
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Condition of Russia before the revolution
Challenges of large country,
Problem of peasants,
Problems with technology
10
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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, Kamanev, Rykov, Tomsky and Zinoviev
26
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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 other contenders
18
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Economic developments
reasons for and impact of the great turn; the economic shift; the launch of the first five year plan and the decision to collectivise
11
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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
12
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Agricultural and social developments in the countryside
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
26
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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
27
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The development of the Stalin cult
literature, the arts and other propaganda; socialist realism
6
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Social and economic condition of the soviet union by 1941
strengths and weaknesses
4
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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
12
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Economic and social developments
state capitalism; social change; conditions in the 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
21
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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
18
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The condition of Russia before the revolution of February/March 1917
The Tsar and political authority; the war effort; the economic and social state of Russia; discontent
10
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The February/March revolution of 1917
causes and course of revolution; issues of leadership and the Tsars abdication; the establishment of Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet; the workings of the dual authority
12
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Developments between the revolutions
the return of Lenin; Lenin's ideology and 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
11
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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
7
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