Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam board specific questions and tips to help students achieve exam success. The series: * Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. * Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams. * Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE exam-board specific model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk). From Autocracy to Communism: Russia 1894-1941 This title draws on content from the bestselling titles 'Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894-1924' and 'Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia 1918-56'. It focuses on the period from 1894-1941. It begins with the situation in Russia under Tsar Nicholas II and then goes on to examine the causes and effects of the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Bolshevik struggle to gain power, and the eventual rise of Stalin. The political, economic and social developments through this period and the effects of these are explored and analysed throughout.