A comprehensive IB DP History case study on how Stalin's authoritarian rule was challenged through internal opposition, popular resistance, policy failures, and external threats. Aligned with the new IB curriculum for the Authoritarian Rule thematic study (20th Century). What's Included:Detailed analysis of internal elite purges (Trotsky, Bukharin, Great Terror)Popular resistance: peasant uprisings, kulak deportations, and "weapons of the weak"Labor unrest and Gulag rebellions (Vorkuta, Norilsk)