Stalin’s Rise to Power - Divisions in the Bolshevik party before 1924
Sunday, December 30th, 2007A worksheet for A-Level / IB History providing long-term policy factors explaining Stalin’s rise to power.
A worksheet for A-Level / IB History providing long-term policy factors explaining Stalin’s rise to power.
Students turn their essay into a flowchart highlighting the essential links between the factors and the most important factual information that can be used to substantiate each factor.
A new quiz for Year 8 history students.
In this exercise, students are given three “skeleton essays”, each one of which puts forward a different interpretation of Hitler’s rise to power. Students read through each interpretation, choose the one they agree with most, and then elaborate on each section using their classroom notes. It provides an accessible way of showing students how the same evidence and factors can be linked in different ways.
I have now added a new factual test to the popular “Horatio Ramsbottom: Victorian Entrepreneur” computer simulation. The game itself has also been expanded to include a new decision point relating to Brunel’s “Great Eastern” project.