Anti-party group
What Anti-party group means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Group formed by Molotov and others in 1957 to remove Khrushchev, defeated using the Central Committee.
Opponents of Khrushchev who in 1957 attempted to oust him over his economic and foreign policies.
Topics that use Anti-party group
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–1964 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 38.1: The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991 - 4 Khrushchev and attempts to reform the Soviet system, 1956–61 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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