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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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