Features
- Authoritative and comprehensive text, written by experienced IB History examiners, covering one topic per title, to help students adopt an investigative and thorough approach to their study.
- Activities throughout the chapters to encourage an exploratory and inquiring approach to historical learning.
- A wide range of primary and secondary sources to develop students’ analytical skills.
- Opportunities for balanced historical debate to inspire engagement with multiple historical perspectives and interpretations.
- Links to Theory of Knowledge concepts to stimulate reflective discussion.
- Key Concept links to highlight how the 6 new key concepts can be integrated into the course.
- Paper 3 exam-style questions to help improve student performance and provide preparation for assessment.
Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Alexander II reform and the emancipation of the serfs 1855–61:
- 2.1. Why is Alexander II associated with the 'modernisation' of Russia?
- 2.2. Why did modernization demand the emancipation of the serfs?
- 2.3. How was emancipation carried out and how did this change Russia?
- Chapter 3. Alexander II's subsequent reforms and their impact 1861–81:
- 3.1. How, and with what success, did the regime address the need for further modernisation in the empire?
- 3.2. Was there a conservative reaction in the later years of Alexander II's rule?
- Chapter 4. Alexander III (1881-1894) and Nicholas II (1894-1917): modernisation, repression and the growth of opposition to 1904: 4.1. What was the nature of tsardom under Alexander III and Nicholas II?
- 4.2. What attempts were made at modernisation?
- 4.3. Why and how did opposition movements grow?
- Chapter 5. The 1905 revolution and its aftermath:
- 5.1. What was the significance of the Russo–Japanese War?
- 5.2. What brought about the 1905 revolution?
- 5.3. How successful was Stolypin in bringing about change in Russia from 1906?
- 5.4. What was Russia like in 1914?
- Chapter 6. The impact of War and the revolutions of 1917:
- 6.1. What was the impact of the First World War on Russia?
- 6.2. Why did revolution break out in February 1917?
- 6.3. Why were the Provisional Government and Dual Power overthrown in October 1917?
- 6.4. What roles did Lenin and Trotsky play in the events of 1917?
- Chapter 7. Lenin's Russia 1917–24:
- 7.1. How did the Bolsheviks consolidate power and win the Russian Civil War?
- 7.2. Why was War Communism introduced in 1918 and replaced by the NEP in 1921?
- 7.3. To what extent did the new Soviet state rely on terror and coercion?
- 7.4. What was the relationship between Bolshevik Russia and the rest of the world?
- Chapter 8. Exam practice
- Further Reading
- Index.
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History for the IB Diploma Paper 3: Imperial Russia, Revolution and the Establishment of the Soviet Union (1855–1924)
