AQA A Level History Depth Study: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 June 2023 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 impact of the Great Patriotic War on the Soviet people.

How significant was Lenin’s leadership in bringing about the October/November 1917 revolution in Russia?

‘In the years 1918 to 1924 Communist Russia was completely isolated in Europe.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How extensively did Stalinism change Soviet society and culture in the 1930s?