Edexcel A Level History Paper 2 options: France in revolution, 1774-99 / Russia in revolution, 1894-1924 June 2019 question paper 9HI0/2C

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 challenge posed to the Republic by the Vendée revolt in 1793?

Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.

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 abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917?

Explain your answer, using both sources, the information given about them and your own knowledge of the historical context.

3 ‘The reforms of the National Assembly (1789-91) transformed France.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

4 ‘The Directory restored financial, but not political, stability.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

5 ‘Tsarist government in the years 1894-1905 was fundamentally similar to Tsarist government in the years 1906-14.’

How far do you agree with this statement?

How far do you agree that the survival of the Bolshevik regime, in the years 1917-21, owed more to the weaknesses of its opponents than to the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky?