History A-Level
Continuity and change in control methods
What Continuity and change in control methods means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Continuity and change in control methods
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Assessing how methods and scale of secret police control persisted or altered, contrasting Stalin-era mass terror with later selective repression.
Topics that use Continuity and change in control methods
- Control of the people, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
- Continuity and change in cultural policy
- Ideology and cultural production
- Propaganda
- Repression and terror
- Resistance and conformity
- State control versus artistic freedom
- Leadership of the secret police
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