Big picture and key terms
Big picture and key terms
This is a breadth study of how Communist Party rule was created, centralised, challenged and finally weakened from 1917 to 1991. The main skill is to track change and continuity across the whole period, not just memorise leaders one by one.
Step-by-step lessons on Edexcel A Level History Russia, 1917–91: from Lenin to Yeltsin. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a secure grasp of the outline narrative for your breadth and depth periods first, since the source-evaluation and historical-interpretations questions that carry a large share of the marks depend on that contextual knowledge.