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    Khrushchev's policy of liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s had significant impacts according to Gorbachev's memoirs from 1995. The policy led to widespread political and economic changes in the country as well as the rehabilitation of thousands of people. However, Khrushchev still faced resistance from some in the Communist Party. As a former high-ranking Soviet official who later introduced reforms himself, Gorbachev's recollections provide useful insights into the effects and reception of Khrushchev's liberalizing efforts in the mid-20th century.

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    Memoirs Gorvachev

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    Khrushchev's policy of liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s had significant impacts according to Gorbachev's memoirs from 1995. The policy led to widespread political and economic changes in the country as well as the rehabilitation of thousands of people. However, Khrushchev still faced resistance from some in the Communist Party. As a former high-ranking Soviet official who later introduced reforms himself, Gorbachev's recollections provide useful insights into the effects and reception of Khrushchev's liberalizing efforts in the mid-20th century.

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    Khrushchev's policy of liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s had significant impacts according to Gorbachev's memoirs from 1995. The policy led to widespread political and economic changes in the country as well as the rehabilitation of thousands of people. However, Khrushchev still faced resistance from some in the Communist Party. As a former high-ranking Soviet official who later introduced reforms himself, Gorbachev's recollections provide useful insights into the effects and reception of Khrushchev's liberalizing efforts in the mid-20th century.

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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 significance of the policy of liberalisation under Khrushchev.
    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 the liberalisation policies had a significant impact (‘actual
    consequences … were crucial’)

    • It suggests liberalisation policies were a force for widespread change


    (‘strong impetus to new processes in politics and economics’)

    • It provides evidence that the policy of liberalisation led to important


    changes in the operation of the police state (‘rehabilitation of thousands of
    people’)

    • It indicates that Khrushchev’s policy of liberalisation was not popular in


    some sections of the Party (‘he still faced bitter resistance’).

    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:
    • Gorbachev had personal knowledge of the content of the secret speech
    and will have witnessed its impact on the Party

    • Gorbachev has a particular interest in liberalisation policies as shown later


    in his policy of Glasnost

    • Gorbachev’s memoirs were published in 1995; the time lapse provided


    Gorbachev with time to reflect on Khrushchev’s liberalisation policies and
    their significance in the history of the Soviet Union.

    3. Knowledge of the historical context should be deployed to support and


    develop inferences and to confirm the accuracy/usefulness of information.
    Relevant points may include:
    • Khrushchev’s liberalisation policy was part of his policy of ‘Reform
    Communism’, which was intended to moderate and humanise the Soviet
    system

    • Khrushchev’s liberalisation policy brought to an end the arbitrary terror


    system that had operated under Stalin

    • Khrushchev’s policy of liberalisation encouraged wider freedom of


    expression but was not intended to challenge the basis of the system;
    outspoken critics were harassed and imprisoned.

    Other relevant material must be credited.

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