12 x Level 7 IB History essays - USSR & post Soviet Russia 1924-2000 (Paper 3)

This book features 12 high scoring IB essays for the Paper 3 topic:

The USSR and post Soviet Russia 1924-2000

Teachers – this book is for you if you have high-performing students asking what a good one looks like (WAGOLL). Set an essay and staple the corresponding exemplar to your students’ effort for instant assessment for learning. Included are over 70 annotations by an experienced IB examiner offering tips and tricks to improve your students’ Paper 3 technique. Don’t just tell them what to do, show them.

Students - this book features high-performance essays for popular IB examination questions from real past papers. It will teach you how to unpack popular Paper 3 IB questions and to write an introduction with a thesis statement which pivots your response perfectly, using the DCO technique. It will also give you ways in which to evaluate historians’ perspectives as well as schools of thought and teach you how to forensically dissect historical evidence. It will also introduce many of the world’s leading experts to you. You will learn how to effectively embed words such as martinet, kleptocracy, multivalent, panoply, dialectical, polity, nomenklatura, gerontocracy, encomium, casus belli, opprobrium, polemic, and quinquennial to make your essays stand out from the rest. You will also read about how to use topic sentences and how to challenge the very premise of a given question. It will also provide fun and creative ideas for IB projects. If you are a student achieving Level 6 but want to reach for the very top grade in IB History this book is for you.

Parents - this book will help you support your child to think critically and to produce deluxe essays.

Essays include:

Analyse the reasons for Stalin’s emergence as Lenin’s successor by 1929. (May 2012)
“Propaganda was not a major factor in Stalin’s maintenance of power between 1929 and 1953.” Discuss. (November 2020)
To what extent did the cult of personality contribute to Stalin’s maintenance of power more than terror? (November 2011)
“Stalin’s Five-Year Plans and the policy of collectivisation failed to improve the Soviet economy by 1941.” Discuss. (November 2017)
What were the consequences of the Second World War for Russia? (May 1994)
Analyse the successes and failures of Khrushchev’s domestic policies in the years 1955 to 1964. (November 2012)
Evaluate the success of Khrushchev’s foreign policy. (May 2014)
Examine the view that Brezhnev’s domestic policies had a very limited impact on the USSR. (November 2015)
“Brezhnev’s foreign policy was successful in reducing Cold War tensions.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? (November 2019)
Evaluate the impact of Gorbachev’s domestic policies on the USSR. (May 2021)
To what extent were Gorbachev’s policies responsible for improved East-West relations between 1985 and 1991? (May 2019)
Evaluate the impact of political and economic developments in post Soviet Russia between 1991 and 2000. (November 2020)