Access to History: Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894-1924

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Introduction: about this book
CHAPTER 1 Context: Russia in 1894
	1 The land, the people and tsardom
	2 The problem of reform
CHAPTER 2 Nicholas II's early rule 1894–1905
	1 Nicholas II: character and policies
	2 Economic reform 1893–1903
	3 The opponents of tsardom
	4 The Russo-Japanese War 1904–5
	5 The 1905 Revolution
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CHAPTER 3 Romanov rule 1906–14
	1 Economic policy under Stolypin
	2 The dumas 1906–14
	3 Growing tensions in Russia 1911–14
	4 Russia's foreign policy before 1914
	5 The tsar's position at the outbreak of war in 1914
	6 Key debate: Was tsardom already doomed by 1914?
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CHAPTER 4 War and revolution 1914–17
	1 Why Russia went to war in 1914
	2 The impact of war on Russia
	3 The growth of opposition to tsardom
	4 The February Revolution 1917
	5 Key debate: Why was there a February Revolution in 1917?
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CHAPTER 5 1917: From Provisional Government to October Revolution
	1 The Dual Authority
	2 The return of the Bolsheviks
	3 The Provisional Government and its problems
	4 The October Revolution
	5 Reasons for Bolshevik success
	6 Key debate: What was the true character of the October Revolution?
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CHAPTER 6 The Bolshevik consolidation of power 1917–24
	1 The Bolsheviks in power
	2 The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
	3 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
	4 The Russian Civil War 1918–20
	5 The foreign interventions 1918–20
	6 Lenin's methods for imposing control 1917–21
	7 War Communism 1918–21
	8 The Kronstadt Rising 1921
	9 The New Economic Policy
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Exam focus: OCR
Exam focus: Pearson Edexcel
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