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• AS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION Russia in revolution, 1905-17 - 1 Tsarist Russia 1905-14 2 The impact of the First World War and teh collapse of Tsarism, 1914-17 3 The problems of the Provisional Government 4 The Bolshevik Revolution, October 1917 The consolidation of Bolshevik power: Russia, 1918 -29 - 5 The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918-24 6 Economic policy - War Communism and the NEP 7 Soviet society and culture under Lenin 8 Safeguarding the Revolution: the struggle for power after Lenin's death, 1924-9 9 Soviet foreign policy, 1917-28 AS Assessment A2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION The Russian Revolutin and the establishment of Bolshevik power - 1 Why did the Tsarist regime collapse in 1917? 2 How and why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in 1917? 3 What direction did Bolshevik ideology and tactics take between 1903 and 1917? 4 To what extent did pratical difficulties stop Lenin from implementing communist ideology? 5 What was the nature of the Bolshevik state? 6 How important was the role of Lenin? 7 How and why did Stalin manage to secure power by 1929? A2 Assessment