SCGS 3IPEOY_History

2 [Turn Over Section A: Source-Based Case Study Question 1 is compulsory for all candidates. Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those which you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 (a) Study Source A. Why was this cartoon published? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Sources B and C. Does Source B support what Source C says? Explain your answer. [5] (c) Study Source D. Do you believe what this source says? Explain your answer [6] (d) Study Source E. Are you surprised by what this source says? Explain your answer. [6] (e) Study all the sources. ‘The Soviet people worked hard because of their desire to gain rewards.’ How far do the sources support this statement? Explain your answer [8] 2020 EOY Paper

3 [Turn Over Stalin’s industrialisation programmes BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. After Stalin became the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union, he introduced economic policies which had far-reaching repercussions on Soviet economy and society . One of these was the r apid industrialisation programmes through his Five Year Plans to transform the country. Massive targets were set and impressive results were achieved in some industrial sectors. How did Stalin manage to get the Soviet workers to achieve such results? Source A: A Soviet cartoon showing the leading ‘Stakhanovite’ blooming mill operators, featured in the Magnitogorsk newspaper. One of the operators featured was V.P. Ogorodnikov whose name featured four times in a list of eight record breaking shifts in Magnitogorsk steel m ill between September 1935 and January 1936. He was the second -highest- earning worker in Magnitogorsk and was rewarded with a brand new motor cycle and an individual house with its own garden.

4 [Turn Over Source B: Adapted from a book written by a historian in 2002. Source C: A Soviet poster displayed in Soviet factories in the 1930s. It shows a drunk worker trying to hold back the advance of Soviet industry. The words in Russian urge workers to write the names of lazy workers in the space on the bottom right-hand corner. A group of young volunteers, working double shifts, whole days without rest and with little food, met to discuss the work on blast furnace number 2, ‘their’ furnace, the Komolska… The idea that the Soviet Union was at last on the road to socialism, via industrialisation, got many working hard. There was a feeling that they were creating a new type of society that would be far superior to that of their capitalist neighbours. Industrialisation was the way to create the ideal world and to protect themselves from hostile forces that appeared to be sur