AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953-2000 (A-level only) June 2024 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 Soviet foreign and international policy in the years 1973 to 1983.

‘The GDR (East Germany) was politically and economically weak in the years 1953 to 1963.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How significant was the influence of Solidarity in the collapse of Communism in the satellite states in 1989?

To what extent did Russia and its people benefit from Yeltsin’s presidency, in the years 1991 to 1999?