Unit 12: Paper 3 — History of Asia and Oceania (HL)
Topic 12.10: The emergence of Central Asian republics (1917–2020) Questions
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What does the Kazakh word 'Jeltoqsan', used to name the December 1986 protests, mean?
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Which republic became the main destination for Soviet industry evacuated eastward in 1941-42?
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Evaluate the claim that the Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk disasters were an unavoidable cost of Soviet economic and strategic development in Central Asia.
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What happened at Zhanaozen in 2011 that exposed the coercive side of Nazarbayev's rule?
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To what extent do you agree that the wartime evacuation of industry to Kazakhstan (1941-42) was primarily a benefit to the republic rather than an act of Soviet exploitation?
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To what extent do you agree that the Kazakh famine of 1930–33 (Asharshylyq) was the result of deliberate targeting of Kazakh nomadic identity rather than a general Soviet economic failure?
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Discuss the view that the 1936 upgrade of Kazakhstan from an ASSR to a full union republic (the Kazakh SSR) represented a meaningful improvement in Kazakh self-rule.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Alash Orda movement of 1917–20 represented a genuine Kazakh nation-building project rather than an unrepresentative elite venture?
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To what extent do you agree that the Brezhnev era (1964-82) brought more stability than stagnation to Soviet Central Asia?
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Evaluate the claim that the Bolsheviks won the Civil War on the Kazakh steppe mainly because of superior military organisation rather than genuine popular support.
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Evaluate the claim that Russification policies between 1920 and 1940 were more damaging to Kazakh national identity in the long term than the human losses of the Asharshylyq famine.
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Who did Gorbachev's government install as First Secretary of Kazakhstan's Communist Party on 16 December 1986, replacing Dinmukhamed Kunaev?
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What did the Alash Autonomy, declared at the Orenburg congress, primarily demand at first?
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Approximately what proportion of the Kazakh population died in the Asharshylyq famine of 1930–33?
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What was the main cause of the shrinking of the Aral Sea from the 1960s onward?
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Which agreement, signed on 8 December 1991 by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus without consulting Kazakhstan, declared that the USSR no longer existed?
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What happened in the Russian Civil War on the Kazakh steppe during 1918–19?
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Discuss the view that Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign was ultimately a failure for Kazakhstan.
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Evaluate the claim that the wartime deportation of the 'punished peoples' to Central Asia can be justified as a security necessity.
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Which ethnic group was deported to Central Asia in 1941, almost immediately after the German invasion began, on suspicion of being a potential Nazi 'fifth column'?
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