Lenin and the Russian RevolutionA study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin, and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination by concentrating on analysis and historians' interpretations of the material covered in the AS section. There are practice questions and hints and tips on what makes a good answer. |
Contents
Context 13 | 13 |
What problems did the Provincial Government face? 257 | 28 |
War Communism and the NEP | 52 |
Soviet society and culture under Lenin | 60 |
The struggle for power after Lenins death 19249 | 71 |
Soviet foreign policy 191728 | 89 |
AS Assessment | 95 |
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION | 101 |
What direction did Bolshevik ideology and tactics | 118 |
To what extent did practical difficulties stop | 125 |
What was the nature of the Bolshevik state? | 131 |
How important was the role of Lenin? | 144 |
How and why did Stalin manage to secure | 155 |
A2 Assessment | 167 |
Bibliography | 174 |
How and why were the Bolsheviks able to seize | 111 |
Common terms and phrases
able Alexandra approach assess autocracy became Bolshevik Party Bolshevik regime Bolshevik Revolution Bolshevik rule Bukharin bureaucracy capitalism capitalist Cheka Civil collapse Communism Communist Party consolidation of Bolshevik culture debate defeat Dictatorship Duma E. H. Carr economic policy elected ensure factors February Revolution glasnost HEINEMANN ADVANCED HISTORY historians ideas ideology impact important industrial workers industrialisation influence Kamenev Kerensky Kornilov Kronstadt Kronstadt Mutiny land leaders leadership Left Lenin Liberal school Marx Marxist Mensheviks Nicholas Nicholas II October Revolution opposition organisation peasantry Petrograd Politburo political position production proletariat Provisional Government question Rasputin Red Army result Revisionist Revolution KEY TERM revolutionary groups rise of Stalin Russian Revolution Russian Revolution KEY secret police seen seize power social socialist sources Soviet Union survival terror threat Treaty Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Trotsky Trotsky's Tsar Tsar's Tsarist regime unrest USSR War Communism workers and peasants World Zinoviev