Detailed notes for the GCSE 9-1 Edexcel History Paper: Russia - Stalin’s Rise to Power.
Notes from this chapter include:
- The struggle for power, 1924-29
- Replacing Lenin (complications)
- The rivals for power
- The aftermath of Lenin’s death
- Stalin eliminates the opposition: the power struggle - The use of terror in the 1930s
- Purges and the use of terror in the Soviet Union
- The role of the secret police
- Reasons behind the purges
- Main events of the purges
- Consequences of the purges
- The labour camp system in the Soviet Union
- Show trials (1936-38) - Propaganda and censorship
- The link between ‘terror’ and the control of information
- ‘Official culture’ in the Soviet Union
- Government control of education
- Government attacks on religion
- Media censorship
- The new Soviet Constitution of 1936 - The cult of Stalin
- The cult of the wise and kind leader in Russia
- The blame game
- The ‘official’ Stalin
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