History: AQA GCSE Russia, 1894-1945 revision notes

1 The End of Tsardom
- 1.1 Russia's Economy & Society
  1.1.1 Industrialisation
  1.1.2 Living & Working Conditions
- 1.2 Nicholas II's Autocracy & the Court
  1.2.1 Growth of Revolutionary Opposition
  1.2.2 The 1905 Revolution & the October Manifesto
  1.2.3 Reforming Russia Before 1914 - Stolypin
  1.2.4 The Duma & Political Stalemate
- 1.3 The First World War
  1.3.1 The Impact of Military Defeats
  1.3.2 Social & Economic Effects of WW1
  1.3.3 Romanov Unpopularity
  1.3.4 The Tsar's Abdication
  1.3.5 Top Grade AO2/3 - The End of Tsardom
2 Lenin's New Society
- 2.1 The Provisional Government
  2.1.1 The Failure of the Government
  2.1.2 Social & Economic Problems
  2.1.3 Lenin & Trotsky
  2.1.4 The Growth of the Bolsheviks
  2.1.5 The October / November Revolution
  2.1.6 Top Grade AO2/3 - The Provisional Government
- 2.2 The Impact of Lenin's Dictatorship
  2.2.1 The End of the First World War
  2.2.2 The Cheka
  2.2.3 Red Terror & Centralisation
  2.2.4 The Civil War & The Red Army
  2.2.5 Propaganda
  2.2.6 Top Grade AO2/3 - Early Bolshevism & the Civil War
- 2.3 Social & Economic Developments
  2.3.1 War Communism
  2.3.2 The Kronstadt Rising
  2.3.3 The New Economic Policy (NEP)
  2.3.4 The Achievements of Lenin & Trotsky
  2.3.5 Top Grade AO2/3 - Social & Economic Developments
3 Stalin's USSR
- 3.1 Stalin the Dictator
  3.1.1 The Power Struggle to Succeed Lenin
  3.1.2 The Communist Party & Government
  3.1.3 The Terror & the Purges
  3.1.4 The Secret Police
  3.1.5 Cult of Personality
  3.1.6 Propaganda & Censorship under Stalin
  3.1.7 Top Grade AO2/3 - Stalin's Dictatorship
- 3.2 Stalin's Modernisation of the USSR
  3.2.1 Collectivisation
  3.2.2 Five Year Plans
  3.2.3 Social & Economic Consequences
  3.2.4 Social & Economic Consequences 2
  3.2.5 The Extent of Modernisation
- 3.3 Impact of the Second World War
  3.3.1 Stalin's Wartime Leadership
  3.3.2 Political, Economic & Social Consequences of War
  3.3.3 Top Grade AO2/3 - Modernisation of the USSR