Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3: Russia in Revolution, 1881-1924

by Alan White

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' and 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 and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3 examination, • Chapter 1: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1881
Including – The Russian land and people; government • Chapter 2: CHALLENGES TO THE TSARIST STATE, 1881–1906
Including – Alexander III and repression, 1881–1894; peasant Russia before 1905; industrial development; Sergei Witte; the growth of opposition to Tsarism; Socialist Revolutionaries; Bolsheviks and 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 and its problems; Lenin and the April Theses; July Days and 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 and the NEP; politics and society in NEP Russia; Lenin’s Russia in 1924 • Chapter 6: EXAM SKILLS • Chapter 7: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS • Index

120 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2012

About the author

Alan White is an English novelist and journalist. He used his experiences as a Second World War commando leader in his writings. He also wrote using the names "Alec Haig", "James Fraser" and "Alec Whitney". His novel The Long Day's Dying was made into a 1968 film directed by Peter Collinson. White wrote mysteries, as well as war and adventure novels.