AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953-2000 (A-level only) June 2018 question paper 7042/2T

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the economy of the GDR in the years 1970 to 1980.

To what extent did Khrushchev bring about social and cultural change within the Soviet Union in the years 1956 to 1964?

To what extent was Yeltsin’s resignation due to his economic policies?

‘‘Shock therapy’ was more effective than the ‘gradualist’ approach in restoring capitalism in the former Soviet satellite states in the years 1989 to 1997.’

Assess the validity of this view.