AQA A Level History Depth Study: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 November 2020 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 Stakhanovite movement in the USSR.

‘The two revolutions of February/March 1917 and October/November 1917 were the result of Russia’s involvement in the First World War.’

Assess the validity of this view.

‘Stalin’s foreign policies were inconsistent and contradictory in the years 1924 to 1934.’

Assess the validity of this view.

How far was Stalin personally responsible for the mass terror and purges of the Yezhovshchina in the years 1936 to 1938?