AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/2N Component 2N Revolution and dictatorsh| QUESTION PAPER & MARKING SCHEME| [MERGED] Marking scheme June 2023 | ip: Russia, 1917–1953

AQA A-level HISTORY 7042/2N Component 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E4 7042/2N A-level HISTORY Component 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 16-page answer book. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7042/2N. • Answer three questions. In Section A answer Question 01. In Section B answer two questions. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 80. • You will be marked on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Advice • You are advised to spend about: – 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A – 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B. A 2 IB/M/Jun23/7042/2N Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From ‘I Chose Freedom’ by Viktor Kravchenko, 1946. Kravchenko was a Red Army captain during the Great Patriotic War but defected to the USA in 1944. Had the Nazi invaders displayed good political sense, they would have avoided a lot of the fierce guerrilla resistance that plagued them day and night. Instead, the Germans proceeded to kill, torture, burn, rape and enslave. Upon collectivisation, which most peasants abhorred, the conquerors now imposed an insufferable German efficiency. In place of the dreaded NKVD, the Germans brought their dreadful Gestapo. Thus the Germans did a magnificent job for Stalin. They turned the overwhelming majority of people, whether in captured territory or not, against them and gave Stalin material for arousing a burning national hatred of the invaders. Refugees and escaped prisoners spread the news of German atrocities and how they regarded all Slavs as a sub-human species. I know from my own emotions that indignation against the Germans drove out resentments against our own regime. Hitler’s armies succeeded in inflaming Soviet patriotism more effectively than all the new cries of ra