History Essays & Resources

• How planned was Stalin’s ‘planned’ economy?
• Did Stalin maintain his hold on power in the years 1945 to 1953?
• New Economic Policy was Lenin’s tacit recognition that the Mensheviks had been right. Discuss.
• What were Stalin’s objectives in Europe, 1941-1949?
• To what extent can Stalin take credit for Russia's economic progress between 1928-39?
• Why was the North Atlantic Treaty concluded in 1949?
• The Foundation Of Baghdad
• ‘There has been a disease crisis whenever people have made radical changes in their lifestyle and environment.’ Discuss.
• What role did disease play in the conquest of the Americas by the Europeans?
• What have peasant societies had in common?
• Documentary Commentary – ‘Let America Be’ by Langston Hughes
• In what ways, and why, did historians in the Middle Ages understand their task differently from modern historians?
• What, if anything, was revolutionary about the Glorious Revolution?
• China: The Mongolian Influence
• What form did the Spanish revolution take, and what were the attitudes towards it of the major parties and unions in the Republic? (Communists, anarchists, POUM, socialists and liberals/left republicans)
• Textual Commentary: Abd al-Hamid: A letter to Secretaries

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Cold War Essay 1:

Spain Essay 1:

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Historical Perspectives & Techniques Essay:

18th Century Essay :

China Essay 2:

The Old World Textual Commentary

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