Stalin's Terror - Text Resource - AQA 2N Russia 1917-1953

This is a detailed and comprehensive textbook chapter equivalent that I’ve written for my students studying Stalin’s Terror as part of their AQA 2N course Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953. I developed this using a range of historical scholarship in order to go beyond the Oxford textbook which I felt was weak in this area and often left my students (and at times me) with unanswered questions.

It gives a narrative of events leading up to and during the Terror itself, and also tries to address some of the historiography of the Terror and the challenges of studying it that make historians’ conclusions about the Terror necessarily tentative.