History

Course summary

The Making of Modern Britain 1951- 2007 Building a new Britain 1951-1979 • The Affluent Society, 1951–1964 • The Sixties, 1964–1970 • The end of Post-War Consensus, 1970–1979 Modern Britain 1979-2007 • The impact of Thatcherism, 1979–1987 • Towards a new Consensus, 1987–1997 • The Era of New Labour, 1997–2007 Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855- 1964 Autocracy, Reform and Revolution: Russia, 1855– 1917 • Trying to preserve autocracy, 1855–1894 • The collapse of autocracy, 1894–1917 • The Soviet Union, 1917–1964 • The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 • The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941– 1964