History A-Level
Authoritarianism versus democracy
What Authoritarianism versus democracy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Yeltsin adopted a highly personalised, often erratic style of rule, and by 2000 there was a contrast between democratic structures and actual governance.
Topics that use Authoritarianism versus democracy
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Crisis and collapse
- demokratizatsiya
- Economic decline
- Economic transition and crisis
- glasnost
- Leadership and political miscalculation
- Nationalism and separatism
- perestroika
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