BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- SERIES PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 STALIN'S RISE AND RULE -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): WHY DID STALIN SUCCEED LENIN? -- Questions -- ANALYSIS (2): WHAT SORT OF DICTATOR WAS STALIN BETWEEN 1929 AND 1941? -- Traditional views -- Revised views -- Questions -- 1. SOURCES -- 1923. ... -- Source B: from a speech by Stalin to the Fifteenth Congress in 1927. -- ied an American labour delegation on a visit to the Soviet Union in 1927. ... -- Source D: a later comment by Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, on Lenin's Testament. -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2. SOURCES -- Source E: from an official biography of Stalin published in Moscow in 1947. -- blished in 1947. ... -- Union (February 1956). ... -- mausoleum of Lenin. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2 STALINIST POLITICS AND TERROR -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): HOW POWERFUL WAS STALIN? -- Questions -- ANALYSIS (2): WHAT WERE THE REASONS FOR THE STALINIST TERROR? -- Questions -- ANALYSIS (3): WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE STALINIST TERROR? -- Questions -- 1. SOURCES -- Source A: from R.W.Thurston: Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia (published in 1996). -- ears before being published in Britain in 1989). ... -- Union (February 1956). ... -- at Purges' (1993). ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2. SOURCES -- Source E: a description of the 1938 show trial by Fitzroy MacLean, a British diplomat -- Source F: from the confession of Bukharin at the 1938 show trial. -- Source G: from the confession of Yagoda at the 1938 show trial. -- 1938. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 3 STALIN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): WHAT WERE THE REASONS FOR AND EFFECTS OF STALIN'S AGRICULTURAL POLICIES? -- Reasons -- Effects -- Questions.

ANALYSIS (2): WHAT WERE THE REASONS FOR AND THE EFFECTS OF STALIN'S INDUSTRIAL POLICIES? -- Reasons -- Effects -- Questions -- 1. SOURCES -- Source A: levels of agricultural production 1928-35 (Soviet figures). -- Source B: from a report by a Reuters correspondent, 29 March 1932. -- embers of the British Labour Party. This was published in their book Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation (1935). ... -- ished in I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2. SOURCES -- Source E: from Sir William Citrine: I Search for Truth in Russia (1938). -- Five-Year Plans were achieved. Figures are percentages of targets. ... -- ecollections were published in London in 1937 under the title I Was a Soviet Worker. ... -- shed in his book Behind the Urals (1942). ... -- the USSR. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 4 SOCIETY AND CULTURE -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): HOW EXTENSIVELY DID STALIN TRANSFORM SOVIET SOCIETY AND CULTURE? -- Questions -- ANALYSIS (2): DID STALIN'S SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POLICIES BENEFIT THE SOVIET PEOPLE? -- QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- Source A: from a resolution by Lenin, 8 October 1920. -- Source B: from a speech of the writer A.O.Advienko to the Seventh Congress of Soviets, 1935. -- Source C: from a poem about Stalin by the writer Osip Mandelstam, May 1934. -- f the British Labour Party, 1935. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 5 STALIN'S FOREIGN POLICY, 1929-41 -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): WHAT WERE THE MOTIVES OF STALIN'S FOREIGN POLICY UP TO AUGUST 1939? -- Questions -- LICY? ... -- Questions -- SOURCES -- Source A: from a speech by Molotov, November 1938. -- 1939. ... -- Source C: extracts from the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, August 1939. -- Source D: an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union partitioning Poland, 28 September 1939.

Questions -- Worked answer -- 6 THE SOVIET UNION AT WAR, 1941-5 -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): WHY WAS THE SOVIET UNION INITIALLY DEFEATED BY NAZI GERMANY? -- Questions -- ANALYSIS (2): WHY WAS THE SOVIET UNION ULTIMATELY VICTORIOUS OVER NAZI GERMANY? -- Questions -- 1. SOURCES -- y the British cartoonist David Low. ... -- Source B: Stalin's private view of the danger from Germany, October 1939. -- Source C: Molotov's speech to the Supreme Soviet, October 1939. -- 20 March 1941. ... -- Source E: Stalin's radio speech to the people of the Soviet Union, 3 July 1941. -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2. SOURCES -- Source F: Stalin's Order of the Day, 23 February 1943. -- Source G: a Soviet cartoon showing the impending defeat of Hitler. -- Source H: a report by a Western observer on Soviet victory in 1945. -- blished in 1952. ... -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 7 STALIN'S POST-WAR REGIME, 1945-53 -- BACKGROUND NARRATIVE -- ANALYSIS (1): DID STALIN REACH THE PEAK OF HIS POWER AND INFLUENCE AFTER 1945? -- Questions -- CESSFUL WAS HE? ... -- Questions -- 1. SOURCES -- Source A: an extract from an official Soviet history, published in 1948. -- Source B: extracts from a speech to the Soviet public by Stalin in 1946. -- index of 100. ... -- Source D: Khrushchev's criticism of the fourth Five-Year Plan. -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 2. SOURCES -- Source E: from the Truman Doctrine, 1948. -- Source F: an extract from the official History of Soviet Foreign Policy 1945-70 (Moscow 1973). -- Questions -- Worked answer -- 8 AN OVERALL SUMMARY -- THE TRADITIONAL OVERALL INTERPRETATION -- A REVISED INTERPRETATION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- TRADITIONAL WORKS -- NEW INTERPRETATIONS -- INDEX.