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Assessment workshop

Practice questions

Plan first, write deliberately, and check every paragraph against the command term.

Question 01

AOS1 · 4 marks · Outline

Outline the ideas about Tsarist authority expressed in the October Manifesto.

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  1. Identify several distinct promises or claims.
  2. Integrate brief words from the source.
  3. Do not add unrelated contextual knowledge.
Question 02

AOS1 · 8 marks · Evaluate

Evaluate the contribution of World War One to the outbreak of the February Revolution.

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  1. Set a criterion for contribution.
  2. Use military, economic, political, and social evidence.
  3. Weigh war against institutional weakness and popular action.
  4. Reach a qualified judgement.
Question 03

AOS1 · 10 marks · Analyse

Analyse the significance of the Kornilov Affair in the Bolsheviks’ path to power.

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  1. Explain the immediate crisis.
  2. Trace effects on Kerensky, Bolshevik credibility, arms, and soviet majorities.
  3. Distinguish acceleration from sole causation.
Question 04

AOS2 · 10 marks · Evaluate

Evaluate the importance of coercion in the Bolsheviks’ consolidation of power to 1921.

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  1. Define coercion broadly.
  2. Use the Cheka, Constituent Assembly, Red Terror, grain requisitioning, and Kronstadt.
  3. Balance coercion against organisation, decrees, Red Army leadership, and opponents’ weaknesses.
Question 05

AOS2 · 20 marks · Discuss

‘For ordinary Russians, the revolution brought political transformation but limited improvement in everyday life.’ Discuss with reference to the period 1896–1927.

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  1. Establish criteria across political, economic, social, and cultural life.
  2. Compare peasants, workers, women, nobles, and the bourgeoisie.
  3. Track both achievement and compromise.
  4. Sustain a judgement across the whole timeframe.

Evidence rule

Source + knowledge + reasoning

Use the supplied source precisely, connect it to accurate contextual knowledge, then explain why that relationship answers the question. A quotation is evidence—not the argument itself.