Depend on SHP’s comprehensive and best-selling core texts to enrich your understanding of A Level History.

SHP Advanced History Core Texts are the Schools History Project’s acclaimed books for A level History.

They offer:
– clear and penetrating narrative – comprehensively explaining the content required for examination success
– thought provoking and relevant activities that explore the content and help students think analytically about the subject
– thorough exam preparation through carefully designed tasks that address the distinctive requirements of A Level history including guidance in essay writing and source-based investigations.
– a wide range of revision strategies including structured content summaries

Additional features include:
– A focus route pathway for independent learners
– Learning Trouble Spots – which address common misunderstandings
– diagrammatic summaries of key areas of content and historical issues
– accessible summaries of recent historical debates.
– active learning approaches, including decision-making exercises

Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953
this title is a comprehensive core text on Russian history from 1881 to the death of Stalin. It is a second edition of the bestselling Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. This second edition is extended to cover the Tsarist pre-revolutionary period.

Major themes include
– the nature of Tsarist rule in Russia and the causes and consequences of the 1905 revolution;
– the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution in 1917;
– the nature, the achievements and failures of Lenin’s and Stalin’s Communist regimes;
– the ongoing historiographical debate about this period and the current reinterpretations of it