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Edexcel AS exam revision – Stalinist economics – collectivisation

Posted on May 4, 2015 by therationalcolonel
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Having achieved ascendancy over his rivals, Stalin embarked Russia on a colossal programme of industrial growth and social transformation – a second revolution, but this time directed from above by the power of the Soviet state. Continue reading →

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Edexcel AS exam revision – Stalin’s rise to power 1924-29

Posted on May 3, 2015 by therationalcolonel
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The main question that you need to be able to write about on this topic is simply: why did Stalin win the power struggle that followed the incapacitation and death of Lenin? Continue reading →

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Soviet Counterfactuals

Posted on January 24, 2015 by therationalcolonel
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Bolshevism

Counterfactual history (asking, and attempting to answer, “what if?” questions about the past) does not enjoy academic respectability, Continue reading →

Posted in Historiography, Russia | Tagged communism, historiography, history, Lenin, Russia, Stalin, Trotsky, Tsarism, WWI | Leave a reply

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