Summary GCSE History Russia Revision Timetable

Paper 1, Section A: Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism Date Studied Easy
1. The end of Tsardom
1.Russia’s economy and society 1894 onwards
2.Living and working conditions in villages / cities
3.Tsar Nicholas II’s autocracy
4.Opposition to the Tsar
5.The 1905 Revolution and October Manifesto
6.Opposition to the Tsar
7.Attempts to reform Russia up to 1914
8.The Dumas
9.Stolypin’s policies
10.Impact of WW1
11.Social and on theeffects
economic Tsar’sofgovernment
WW1 on cities
and countryside
12.Unpopularity of the Romanovs and the role of
Rasputin
13.February/March Revolution: The abdication of
the Tsar
Paper 1, Section A: Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism
2.Lenin's New Society
1.The Provisional Government / Petrograd Soviet
2.Failures of the Provisional Government
3.The roles of Lenin and Trotsky
4.The growth of the Bolsheviks
5.October / November Bolshevik Revolution 1917
6.Lenin in power, his decrees and dictatorship
7.The end of WW1 and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
8.The Cheka,
9.Causes. the Red
events Army and their of
and consequences roles
the
Russian Civil War
10.Reasons why the Reds won and the Whites lost
11.War Communism and the Kronstadt Rebellion
12.The NEP and its organisation
13.The achievements of Lenin and Trotsky
Paper 1, Section A: Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism
3.Stalin's USSR
The struggle for power after Lenin
The Great Terror / The Great Purge
The show trials
Gulags
The growth of the Bolsheviks
Stalin's cult of personality
Comparing Lenin’s USSR and Stalin’s USSR
Collectivisation
Five-Year Plans
Extent of modernisation