Flagship History: Europe 1870-1991

Part of the series Flagship History.

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Bring history to life with the best-selling Flagship History series written by a leading author team. This title offers a comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by experienced teachers who are also examiners.

It includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.

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Key Features:

• Raise exam results by preparing your students effectively with study aids, source-based questions and a section on study and examination skills.
• Enhance engagement and achievement using a clear and easy-to-follow layout with difficult words and concepts explained in the margins.
• Teach key interpretive and analytical skills with in-depth source work and content including maps, timelines and useful statistics.

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Contents:

• Europe 1870-1991: a synoptic assessment
• The Consolidation of Russian Conservatism 1855-1894
• Germany under Bismarck 1871-1890
• Wilhelmine Germany, 1888-1918
• The Crisis of Russian Autocracy 1894-1914
• The Causes and Course of the First World War
• The Russian Revolution 1917-1924
• The USSR under Stalin 1924-1941
• Italy 1870-1943
• Germany, 1918-1945
• The Twenty Years Truce: International Relations, 1919-1939
• The Second World War
• Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1991
• The Development of Western Europe, 1945-1991
• Further Reading
• Index