History A-Level
Crisis and collapse
What Crisis and collapse means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Deepening economic and political crises, culminating in the August 1991 coup and Gorbachev's resignation as president in December 1991, which marked the formal collapse of the USSR.
Topics that use Crisis and collapse
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
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- demokratizatsiya
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