AQA A Level History Depth Study: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 June 2018 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 state terror in the USSR in the 1930s.

‘Trotsky’s contribution to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 was greater than that of Lenin.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How important were unity and organisation to the Red victory in the Civil War in the years 1918 to 1921?

To what extent was the destruction of the kulaks the most important outcome of Stalin’s campaign of forced collectivisation?