History A-Level

Imperial collapse and regime change

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The collapse of four major autocratic empires, with Russia replaced by a Bolshevik state and Germany's Kaiser abdicating in 1918 to leave the fragile Weimar Republic.

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2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941 (A-level only) – Second World War, 1917–1941 The end of the First World War and the peace settlement, 1917–1923 (AQA A-Level)

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