Author(s): Ken Webb

History | General

Russia and the Soviet Union: 1917'1941 is written with close and clear alignment to the new Stage 6 Modern History course. The text incorporates relevant and regular visual, with primary source extracts and accompanying activities. Opening with a survey of the Bolshevik consolidation of power, this student book examines in detail the struggle for power following the death of Lenin, the establishment of Stalin's dictatorship, the transformation of Soviet economic, political and cultural life and Soviet foreign policy between 1917 and 1941.