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History: Russia
- The Great Patriotic War and its Outcomes, 1941-1953
- The impact on the USSR of German
invasion and Nazi ideology from 1941
- Stalin's role in the
management of the war effort
- The nature of the
wartime Soviet economy
- The actions of the Communist
regime to enlist mass patriotism for
the war effort including propaganda
and religious concessions
- The extent of wartime opposition within the USSR
and the Stalinist regime's treatment of opposition
- The relationship between the Soviet
people and Stalin's regime by the
time victory was achieved in 1945
- High Stalinism
- Stalin's dictatorship, 1945-1953
- The cult of personality
- Economic recovery after 1945
- The impact of Cold War
politics on the USSR
- Destalinisation, 1953-1968
- The emergence of new leaders after
the death of Stalin and Khruschev's
victory in the power struggle
- The 1956 Party Congress and reaction
to Khruschev's 'secret speech'
- Khruschev's leadership
- Khrushchev's motives
for industrial and agrarian
reforms and their impact
- The reasons for
the ousting of
Khruschev in 1964
- The impact of Destalinisation within the USSR
and on Soviet relations with the satellite states
- The Brezhnev Era, 1968-1982
- The leadership of Brezhnev
- Brezhnev's political,
economic and social policies
- The era of conservatism
- Attitudes towards the Brezhnev regime
- The repression of dissidents
- Opposition to the war in Afghanistan
- Economic stagnation and
the costs of the arms race
- The End of the Soviet Union, 1982-1991
- Leadership changes from 1982
- The leadership of Andropov
- The leadership of Chemenko
- The leadership of Gorbachev
- Problems facing the USSR by the 1980s
- The motives for, and impact of,
Gorbachev's claims
- Ideas of glasnost and perestroika and the effects
- Opposition to glasnost and perestroika
- Economic and political problems
- The growing threat of nationalism from republics within the USSR
- The impact on the USSR of the collapse of Communist
regimes in the satellite states at the end of 1989
- The August coup of 1991 and
the overthrow of Gorbachev
- The end of the USSR