The big picture
The big picture
Russia between 1894 and 1941 moves through four linked phases: Nicholas II's autocracy, the revolutions of 1917, Lenin's Bolshevik state, and Stalin's dictatorship. The rulers and ideas changed sharply, but each regime faced the problem of controlling a huge, diverse state.
Step-by-step lessons covering OCR A Level History Russia 1894–1941 for A Level History. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Unit group 1, Unit group 2 and Unit group 3, plus the Y100 non-exam assessment format. 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.
