AQA A Level History Breadth Study: Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855-1964 June 2017 question paper 7042/1H

Using your understanding of the historical context, assess how convincing the arguments in these three extracts are in relation to the impact of Soviet industrial policy between 1921 and 1941.

‘The main aim of Alexander III was to reverse his father’s policies.’

Assess the validity of this view with reference to the years 1855 to 1894.

‘Peasant discontent posed a major threat to the tsarist regime between 1894 and 1917.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent were the key features of post-Second World War Stalinism still in place at the time of Khrushchev’s overthrow in 1964?