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.

Other improvements for this second edition include more streamlined coverage of Stalin''s foreign policy.