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    Section A: Indicative Content: Option 1C: Russia, 1917-91: From Lenin To Yeltsin 1a

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    The document provides indicative content for analyzing a source about Lenin's dismissal of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. It identifies several key points about the source's value: 1) it suggests only Soviets could achieve socialist aims, 2) it implies the Constituent Assembly represented the old government, and 3) it shows the Soviets did not control the newly elected assembly. It also notes the source was written by Lenin to explain the Bolshevik position and represents their views on replacing the assembly with Soviet rule. Historical context about Lenin not sharing power and the Bolsheviks losing the election could support inferences about why Lenin dissolved the assembly.

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    The document provides indicative content for analyzing a source about Lenin's dismissal of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. It identifies several key points about the source's value: 1) it suggests only Soviets could achieve socialist aims, 2) it implies the Constituent Assembly represented the old government, and 3) it shows the Soviets did not control the newly elected assembly. It also notes the source was written by Lenin to explain the Bolshevik position and represents their views on replacing the assembly with Soviet rule. Historical context about Lenin not sharing power and the Bolsheviks losing the election could support inferences about why Lenin dissolved the assembly.

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    The document provides indicative content for analyzing a source about Lenin's dismissal of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. It identifies several key points about the source's value: 1) it suggests only Soviets could achieve socialist aims, 2) it implies the Constituent Assembly represented the old government, and 3) it shows the Soviets did not control the newly elected assembly. It also notes the source was written by Lenin to explain the Bolshevik position and represents their views on replacing the assembly with Soviet rule. Historical context about Lenin not sharing power and the Bolsheviks losing the election could support inferences about why Lenin dissolved the assembly.

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    Section A: Indicative Content: Option 1C: Russia, 1917-91: From Lenin To Yeltsin 1a

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    The document provides indicative content for analyzing a source about Lenin's dismissal of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. It identifies several key points about the source's value: 1) it suggests only Soviets could achieve socialist aims, 2) it implies the Constituent Assembly represented the old government, and 3) it shows the Soviets did not control the newly elected assembly. It also notes the source was written by Lenin to explain the Bolshevik position and represents their views on replacing the assembly with Soviet rule. Historical context about Lenin not sharing power and the Bolsheviks losing the election could support inferences about why Lenin dissolved the assembly.

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    Section A: Indicative content

    Option 1C: Russia, 1917-91: From Lenin to Yeltsin


    Question Indicative content
    1a Answers will be credited according to their deployment of material in relation to
    the qualities outlined in the generic mark scheme.
    The indicative content below is not prescriptive and candidates are not required
    to include all the material which is indicated as relevant. Other relevant material
    not suggested below must also be credited.
    Candidates are required to analyse the source and consider its value for an
    enquiry into the reasons for Lenin’s dismissal of the Constituent Assembly in
    January 1918.
    1.The value could be identified in terms of the following points of information
    from the source, and the inferences which could be drawn and supported from
    the source:
     It suggests that only a Soviet government can achieve the aims of the
    Revolution (‘Only class institutions (such as the Soviets) were capable of
    … laying the foundations of socialist society’)
     It implies that the Constituent Assembly represents the old, exploitative
    government of Russia (‘a step backwards’, ‘absolutely incompatible with
    the aim of achieving socialism’)
     It provides evidence that the Soviets did not control the newly-elected
    Constituent Assembly (‘The Party of Right Socialist-Revolutionaries
    obtained the majority in the Constituent Assembly’).
    2.The following points could be made about the authorship, nature or purpose of
    the source and applied to ascribe value to information and inferences:
     The Draft Decree was written by Lenin who was responsible for the
    dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
     Lenin, as a key proponent of Soviet power, was in an excellent positon to
    explain the reasons for the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly that
    would have replaced the Soviets
     The Draft Decree represents the position of the Bolshevik Party on the
    dissolution of the Constituent Assembly which was issued immediately
    after the event.
    3. Knowledge of historical context should be deployed to support and develop
    inferences and to confirm the accuracy /usefulness of information. Relevant
    points may include:
     Lenin had no intention of sharing power with other socialist groups but
    had allowed elections for a Constituent Assembly to go ahead to prevent a
    backlash
     The Constituent Assembly posed a great threat to Lenin’s plans for Soviet
    government, because it represented a legitimate government which was
    not controlled by the Bolsheviks
     The Socialist Revolutionary party won 410 seats in the Constituent
    Assembly compared to the 175 won by the Bolsheviks
     When Lenin dissolved the Constituent Assembly, he claimed that it was
    not legitimate because it represented bourgeois democracy whereas
    Soviet government represented a higher stage of democracy.
    Other relevant material must be credited.

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