History

Course summary

Modern history is an exciting, engaging and rewarding subject. A large focus of the History A-Level course will be on understanding the development and changes of modern Communist states in the 19th and 20th centuries. These will include Russia between the Revolution of 1917, right up until the end of the Cold War in 1991, as well as Communist China under Chairman Mao. You will study historical controversies, such as the fall of the USSR or the rapid and tragic transformation of Chinese society during the 1950s and 60s.