1. Russia's problems under Tsar Nicholas II
2. The Tsar's opponents and supporters
3. The events of 1905
4. 1905 ¿ the aftermath
5. The First World War
6. The March 1917 Revolution
Review: Events leading to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917
7. The Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks
8. The fate of the Provisional Government
9. The Bolsheviks seize power
10. The Civil War
11. The communist victory
12. War Communism
13. The New Economic Policy
Review: How the Bolsheviks gained control
14. Trotsky and Stalin
15. The rise of Stalin
16. Collectivisation
17. The Five-Year Plans
18. The effects of the Five-Year Plans
Review: The impact of Stalin's economic policies
19. The purges
20. Threats to Stalin's power
21. Stalin gains control
review: How did Stalin win and hold on to power?
22. The Great Patriotic War
23. Stalin's successors
Review: The Soviet Union after 1941.
