Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.11: The USSR and post-Soviet Russia (1945–2020) Questions
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At the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, what did Khrushchev do in his Secret Speech?
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What was the outcome of the First Chechen War (1994-96)?
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What was the nomenklatura under Brezhnev?
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What triggered Boris Yeltsin's decision to send tanks to shell the Russian parliament building (the White House) in Moscow in October 1993?
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What happened in the Leningrad Affair of 1949-50?
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Under Stalin's Order 270 (1941) and its post-war consequences, what typically happened to Soviet soldiers returning from German captivity?
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Which two leaders replaced Nikita Khrushchev after his removal from power in October 1964?
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How was Khrushchev removed from power in October 1964?
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Discuss the view that the USSR's treatment of prisoners of war after 1945 was driven more by security fears than by cruelty.
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What happened on 19 August 1991?
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What event in 1968 is most closely linked to the Soviet leadership's growing fear that market-style economic reform could weaken Communist Party control?
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Which Soviet dissident, a physicist and human rights campaigner, was sent into internal exile in the city of Gorky in 1980?
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What was the outcome of the "loans-for-shares" scheme of 1995-96?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the 1965 Kosygin reforms failed mainly because of bureaucratic resistance from the nomenklatura, rather than because the reforms themselves were flawed?
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Which event marked the end of the "tandem" period and Putin's return to the presidency?
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What happened to Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014?
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Evaluate the claim that shock therapy was a necessary policy that gave Russia no realistic alternative in the early 1990s.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that the Leningrad Affair and the Doctors' Plot show that Stalin's regime never really changed after 1945?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that glasnost, rather than perestroika, was the more important cause of the Soviet Union's political crisis by 1991?
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"Vladimir Putin's control over Russian political life between 2000 and 2020 was never seriously challenged." To what extent do you agree with this claim?
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