How regimes acquire and hold power, and the conditions under which authority is accepted rather than imposed.
These are the statements the Modern History syllabus makes about Core: Power and Authority in the Modern World. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
How historians construct accounts from evidence, and why accounts of the same event differ. Historiography is the discipline's own history.
Revolution, civil war and the consolidation of Bolshevik power, and the debate over how much was ideology and how much was circumstance.
Weimar's fragility and the Nazi seizure of power, and the historiographical argument between intentionalist and structuralist readings.
How power is acquired, legitimised and lost, and the difference between authority and coercion.
The features that distinguish a totalitarian regime from an authoritarian one, and why the distinction matters to evidence.
The machinery of consent: media, education, terror and the limits of each in securing compliance.
Forms of resistance from everyday non-compliance to organised opposition, and why some succeeded in changing policy.
The sequence from 1933 to 1934, and the legal and paramilitary instruments used to make dictatorship appear lawful.
Collectivisation and industrialisation, and the human cost against the claimed economic outcome.
HSC Modern History - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Core: Power and Authority in the Modern World are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Modern History uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Core: Power and Authority in the Modern World opens the Modern History course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Modern History dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.