History A-Level
Authoritarianism vs. Democracy
What Authoritarianism vs. Democracy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The shift from Bismarck's semi-authoritarian constitutional monarchy to the democratic experiment of the Weimar Republic, and later the contrast between the democratic FRG and the authoritarian GDR.
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