AQA A Level History Depth Study: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 June 2017 question paper 7042/2N

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the Kronstadt Rising of 1921.

To what extent was the First Five-Year Plan more successful than the New Economic Policy in improving Soviet industrial performance?

‘The USSR experienced a social revolution during Stalin’s regime in the 1930s.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How far was Stalin’s creation of a Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe after the Second World War the result of his obsession with ensuring international security for the USSR?