History · Edexcel 9HI0 · Paper 2 options: France in revolution, 1774-99 / Russia in revolution, 1894-1924 · June 2017
Study Sources 1 and 2 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.
How far could the historian make use of Sources 1 and 2 together to investigate the seriousness of the financial problems facing the French monarchy in the years before 1789?
Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.
(20)
Study Sources 3 and 4 in the Sources Booklet before you answer this question.
How far could the historian make use of Sources 3 and 4 together to investigate the reasons for the introduction of the New Economic Policy in 1921?
Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.
(20)
3 ‘The Terror had successfully strengthened the Republic by the beginning of 1795.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
How significant was the domestic impact of war in bringing about the fall of the Directory in 1799?
(20)
5 ‘The Tsarist government was transformed in the years 1906–14.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
6 ‘The fall of the Provisional Government in 1917 owed more to its domestic policies than to its decision to stay in the war.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
(20)
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