History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (1924–2000)Cambridge University Press, 2016 M04 14 - 334 pages Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the Higher Level requirements of the IB syllabus and written by experienced IB History examiners and teachers, it offers authoritative and engaging guidance through the topic. |
Contents
Stalins Rise to Power 192429 | 23 |
Stalins Revolution 192941 | 49 |
Stalin and the Soviet Union 194153 | 87 |
Khrushchev and DeStalinisation 195364 | 127 |
Stagnation and Drift 196485 | 160 |
Gorbachev and the Years of Reform 198589 | 194 |
Common terms and phrases
Afghanistan agriculture alliance Andropov answer argued attempts became began Berlin Bolshevik Brezhnev Brezhnev Doctrine Britain Bukharin Central Committee Cold Cold War collapse collectivisation Communist Party Congress of People’s countries CPRF CPSU crisis Czechoslovakia December defeated despite developments dissidents East Germany Eastern Europe Eastern European economic policies economic reforms elections emergency EXAMINER’S Figure Five-Year Plan forces General-Secretary glasnost Gorbachev historians historical debate History Hungary increased increasingly industrial industrialisation Khrushchev Kosygin Lenin living standards military million modernise Moscow Nazi Germany NKVD November nuclear opposed opposition organisations Pact paragraph Party Congress People’s Deputies perestroika period Poland Politburo president problems production programme purges question Red Army regime relevant result revolution Russian Second World shock therapy significant social socialist Soviet economy Soviet security Soviet Union stagnation Stalin Stalin’s foreign policy Supreme Soviet Treaty Trotsky Trotsky’s USSR USSR’s Warsaw Pact West Western Yeltsin Zinoviev and Kamenev