AS EUROPEAN HISTORY

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AS EUROPEAN HISTORY

• COURSE OUTLINE

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WHAT DO WE STUDY?

• The course is split into two halves Russia and
  Germany.
• Both are examined at the end of year 12.
• Russia is also examined in a course essay in
  March.

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HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH?

• The exam is worth 35 of the AS.
• The course essay is worth 15 of the AS.
• The other 50 comes from the British unit.

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SYLLABUS

• You are expected to study the origins of
  Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany for the exam.
• There are three general themes
• 1. Political Ideas.
• 2. The Accession to Power.
• 3. Consolidation.

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POLITICAL IDEAS

• The contrasts between the Bolsheviks and Tsarism,
  and the Nazis and the Weimar Democracy.
• The ideologies of political leadership
  dictatorship of the proletariat and Fuhrerprinzip.

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THE ACCESSION TO POWER

• Political conflict within the Soviet Communist
  Party, 1924-29 (Stalin vs Trotsky).
• The decline of the Weimar Republic, 1928-33.

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CONSOLIDATION

• The consolidation of totalitarian regimes by 1939
  in the USSR and Nazi Germany.
• The one party state.
• Propaganda and Repression.

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KEY QUESTIONS

• Why and how did totalitarian regimes come to
  power?
• How important was the role of the individual in
  the coming to power of totalitarian regimes?
• How, and with what success, did totalitarian
  leaders consolidate a dictatorship?

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COURSE ESSAY

• The accession to power of the Bolsheviks and
  Lenins regime.
• The reasons for the revolution.
• The aims of the Bread, Peace and Land programme
  with particular reference to the Treaty of
  Brest-Litovsk, War Comunism and the New Economic
  Policy.
• The Constitution of 1923.

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IN SUMMARY

• We go from 1900 to the 1930s in Russia.
• We go from 1918 to the 1930s in Germany.
• In A2 you will build on these units as well as
  looking at the Holocaust.