Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953 Second Edition (SHP Advanced History Core Texts) - Softcover

Review of the first edition:
'This is a great book. You might have read Ron Grant's review of Hite and Hinton's Weimar and Nazi Germany in the same series. This is written at the same cracking standard.'

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SHP Advanced History Core Texts are the Schools History Project's acclaimed books for A level History.

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- clear and penetrating narrative - comprehensively explaining the content required for examination success
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Additional features include:
- A focus route pathway for independent learners
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- diagrammatic summaries of key areas of content and historical issues
- accessible summaries of recent historical debates.
- active learning approaches, including decision-making exercises

Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953
this title is a comprehensive core text on Russian history from 1881 to the death of Stalin. It is a second edition of the bestselling Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. This second edition is extended to cover the Tsarist pre-revolutionary period.

Major themes include
- the nature of Tsarist rule in Russia and the causes and consequences of the 1905 revolution;
- the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution in 1917;
- the nature, the achievements and failures of Lenin's and Stalin's Communist regimes;
- the ongoing historiographical debate about this period and the current reinterpretations of it.

Other improvements for this second edition include more streamlined coverage of Stalin's foreign policy.