iGCSE Edexcel USSR, 1924-53 History (paper 1, option 5)

This is a series of lessons designed to meet the needs of learners completing Edexcel’s iGCSE Paper 1 (5) Dictatorship and conflict in the USSR, 1924 – 53

The spec squeezed into 24 lessons:
1.1 The Soviet Union in 1924
1.2 The rivals for leadership (1. Nov 2020, a)
1.3 Strengths & weaknesses of Stalin and Trotsky (1. June 2019, a)
1.4 Stalin’s steps to power (1a. June 2021 Ci; 1r. Nov. 2020 Ci)

2.1a Reasons for industrialisation
2.1b Nature of industrialisation
2.1c successes and failures of industrialisation
2.2a Collectivisation (1. June 2022 Ci; 1a. Nov 2021a)
2.2b Opposition to collectivisation
2.2c Success and failures of collectivisation (1a June 2021 b; 1r Nov 2020 Cii)

3.1 Purges and causes (1. June 2019, Ci; 1r. Nov 2020, a)
3.2a & c Key features and impact of the purges of the 1930s (1a. June 2021 a)
3.2b Control of the population
3.2d Purges armed forces (1a. June 2022 b; 1a. Nov 2021 Ci)
3.3 Cult of personality, censorship, propaganda
3.4 Education and the Soviet interpretation of history

4.1 Town & countryside (1. June 19, Cii; 1a. June 22, Cii; 1a. Nov 21, b)
4.2 Different experience of social groups (1r. Nov 2020 b)
4.3 Changes in education (1. November 2020, Cii)
4.4 Persecution of ethnic minorities (1. June 2019, Cii)

5.1a Soviet setbacks and survival (1. June 2019, b; 1. November 2020, Cii; 1a. June 21 Cii)
5.1b Stalingrad (1a June 2022 a)
5.2 Post-war

• Each lesson starts with 5 recall questions that can be self assessed on the next slide.

• Clear instructions for each activity

• The textbook approved by the exam board (978-0435185466) has been used, along with some printable materials that compliment the textbook~

• Learning objectives are clearly displayed on each slide

• The titles of the PPT clearly indicate where an exam question has been used.

-All exam questions have mark scheme on the next slide.