Give one piece of evidence illustrating the impact of the following:

Establishing Creation of a one-party state 1. Russia's economy was too weak to provide food and equipment
Communist and party congress of 1921 needed for war and Tsar was an incompetent wartime leader. By
Part control, early 1917, economic chaos, military defeat and political
1917-24 mismanagement led to the February Revolutions which
overthrew Tsar and set up the Provisional Government.
Nature of government under 2.
Lenin

Growing centralisation of 3.
power

Stalin in Elimination of opponents in 4.

power, 1928- government and party
1953

Purges of the 1930s 5.

Stalin’s power over party and 6.

state

Government, Changes in leaders’ control 7.

1953-1985 of the state across the period

Khrushchev’s attempt to 8.
reform government including
de-stalinisation

Return to stability under 9.

Brezhnev, 1964-82
 Growing political stagnation, 10.
1982-85

Give one piece of evidence illustrating the impact of the following:

Towards a The nationalisation of 1.

command Industry
economy:
1917-1928
War Communism 2.

New Economic Policy 3.

State control of industry and 4.

agriculture

Industry The five year plans and 5.

and industrial change
agriculture
in the
Stalin era Agricultural collectivisation 6.
and its impact

Recovery from war after 7.

1945

Changes in Promotion of light industry, 8.

industry
and
agriculture,
1953-85 Promotion of chemicals 9.

Promotion of consumer 10.

goods

Investment in agriculture and 11.

the Virgin Lands Scheme
 Limited attempts at reform 12.
after 1964

Economic decline 13.

USSR Theme 3: Control of the people 1917-85

Give one piece of evidence illustrating each of the following:

Media, State control of mass 1.
propaganda media and
and religion propaganda
Attacks of religious 2.
beliefs and practices

Personality cult of 3.
Stalin

Personality cult of 4.
Khrushchev
Personality cult of 5.
Brezhnev

The secret Attacks on opponents 6.

police of the government

Role of Yagoda 7.

Role of Yezhov 8.

Role of Beria 9.

Andropov’s 10.
suppression of
dissidents 67-82
Continued monitoring 11.
of popular discontent
82-85
The state Proletkult 12.
and cultural
change
Avant garde 13.
 Socialist realism 14.

Non-conformity from 15.

the 1950s

Clashes between 16.

artists and the
government to 1985
USSR Theme 4: Social developments 1917-85

Give one piece of evidence illustrating each of the following:

Social Full employment 17- 1.
security 53
Housing 17-53 2.

Social benefits 17-53 3.

Khrushchev and the 4.

promotion of stable
society
Brezhnev and the 5.
promotion of stable
society
Women and Changing status of 6.
the family different groups of
women in towns
Changing status of 7.
different groups of
women in the
countryside
Changing government 8.
views of family as a
social unit: Lenin
Changing government 9.
views of family as a
social unit: Stalin
Changing government 10.
views of family as a
social unit:
Khrushchev
Changing government 11.
views of family as a
social unit: Brezhnev
Education The growth of primary 12.
and young education
people
The growth of 13.
secondary education
 The growth of higher 14.
education

Reduction of illiteracy 15.

State control of the 16.

curriculum

USSR Section C: Fall of the USSR

Give one piece of evidence illustrating each of the following:

Significance Evidence 1 1.
of economic
weaknesses
and the
failure of Evidence 2 2.
reform

Evidence 3 3.

Effects of Evidence 1 4.
Gorbachev’
s failure to
reform the
Communist Evidence 2 5.
Party and
government
Evidence 3 6.

Impact of Evidence 1: Republics 7.

Nationalist
resurgence
in the late Evidence 2: Republics 8.
1980s
Evidence 3: Satellite States 9.

Evidence 4: Satellite States 10.

Gorbachev Evidence 1: Gorbachev 11.

and Yeltsin
as
individuals Evidence 2: Gorbachev 12.

Evidence 3: Yeltsin 13.

Evidence 4: Yeltsin 14.