A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by experienced teachers who are also examiners. 1) Synoptic Chapter: Europe 1870-1989 2) The Consolidation of Russian Conservatism 1855-1894 3) Germany under Bismarck 1871-1890 4) The Third French Republic 5) The Crisis of Russian Aristocracy 1894-1917 6) Germany and Austria-Hungary 1890-1914 7) The Causes and Course of the First World War 8) Russia in Revolution 1917-1924 9) The USSR under Stalin 1924-1953 10) Democracy in Crisis between the Wars: France, Spain, Hungary, Poland 11) Italy 1870-1945 12) Germany 1918-1945 13) International Relations 1919-1945 14) The Second World War 15) The Cold War 16) The Move to Western European Union