Miss Blom
CHY 4UW
1. a) In Source B, what did Trotsky mean by the following statement: “In this situation a bureaucratic counter-revolution took place. A bureaucratic elite raised itself above the working class.” (3)
b) What message is portrayed by Source E? (3)
2. Compare and contrast the public reactions of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky to the death of Lenin as seen in Source C and Source D.(6)
3. With reference to their origins and purpose, assess the value and limitations of Sources A and D to historians studying early communist Russia.(8)
4. Using the sources and your own knowledge, assess why Stalin and Trotsky were such tremendous adversaries. (10)
SOURCE A: http://www.fbuch.com/leon.htm
SOURCE B: http://www.trotsky.net/
SOURCE C: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/01/30.htm
SOURCE D: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/01/lenin.htm
SOURCE E: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/photo/t1917d.htm