The Clever Teens' Guide to the Russian Revolution: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. The communist system unleashed by the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the greatest political experiment ever conducted. The revolution promised freedom from the shackles of imperialism, corruption and exploitation but until its collapse in 1991, the peoples of the vast Soviet empire endured 70 years of misguided socialism and totalitarianism. The Clever Teens’ Guide to the Russian Revolution covers all the major facts and events giving you a clear and straightforward overview: from the circumstances behind the rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, to the consequences of their struggle for a new socialist utopia.

The Clever Teens' Guide to World War One: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. It lasted over 1,500 days and was without parallel. World War One threw the globe into a war of unprecedented horror, fought with terrifying new weapons, and of death on an industrial magnitude, a war that involved so many nations and reached into the very fabric of society. The war of 1914 – 1918 changed the world and shaped the twentieth century. The Clever Teens’ Guide to World War One covers all the major facts and events giving you a clear and straightforward overview: from the pre-war tensions, the assassination that sparked the war to its bloody conclusion four years later. Read about the huge battles on the Western Front, the Eastern Front, the war at sea and in the air, and the war in Africa and the Middle East.