Russia Post-1945
Subjects / History / Russia, 1910-1991
Following the Second World War, Stalin's Soviet Union became a world superpower alongside the United States. However, during this period both sides initiated a new conflict, known as the Cold War. It was named the Cold War as no open conflict broke out between the two. One major reason for unrest was the contrasting political systems of capitalism and communism in the USA and the Soviet Union. When Stalin died in 1953, the new Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev continued to strengthen the Soviet Union, but he denounced Stalin and his terror tactics. However, during the 1960s and 1970s the Soviet Union was still a totalitarian state. Change came in the form of Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s, as he instigated reforms that led to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. In 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
| Author: | Cathal Doyle | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-062-2 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-562-7 |
Chapters
- Stalinist Russia post-1945
- The USSR under Khrushchev
- Brezhnev and the 1970s
- Gorbachev and the 1980s
- The Fall of Communist Eastern Europe
- Yeltsin and the End of the USSR
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Khruschev and de-Stalinisation
- Brezhnev and his successors: government by the Elderly and the rise of Gorbachev, Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika
- Yeltsin and the end of the USSR
- agricultural reforms to 1991
- religion in the USSR
- Khruschev and the development of the USSR: Seven Year Plan and modernisations
- the impact of Gorbachev's political and economic reforms
- the rise of nationalism and the collapse of the USSR
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