History A-Level
faction
What faction means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of faction
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Reference: AQA
Internal opposition within the party, notably the Workers' Opposition and Democratic Centralists, prompting the 1921 Ban on Factions to enforce party unity.
Topics that use faction
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- Cheka
- Collectivisation
- Command economy and industrialisation
- Continuity and change
- Great Purges
- Ideological adaptation
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