OCR A-level history, Russia, 1894-1941 - Was the NEP the 'great defeat which Lenin described?

This bundle of two lessons allows students to evaluate the NEP as an economic policy. The first lesson introduces the problems faced by the Bolsheviks at the end of the Civil War, such as the famine of 1920 and the Kronstadt Mutiny, and therefore goes through why the NEP was needed for the survival of the Bolsheviks.

The second lesson allows students to identify successes and failures of the NEP according to a Bolshevik perspective. It works largely with statistics to indicate the economic impacts of the NEP however, the ideological anxieties surrounding the NEP are also considered. The lessons helps students to draw out that the NEP was successful in aiding recovery but following the crisis of 1927/8 was not allowing Russia to make significant progress.

All fully resourced and recently updated. Does have one homework which required ‘Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin’ by Chris Corin and Terry Fiehn.