AQA A Level History Depth Study: The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953-2000 (A-level only) June 2025 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 unrest in Poland in 1980/81.

To what extent did Khrushchev achieve peaceful co-existence with the West in the years 1958 to 1962?

‘In the years 1953 to 1968, Communist regimes controlled the Church effectively in all satellite states.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent did Andropov and Chernenko reform the USSR in the years 1982 to 1985?