History A-Level
Hardliners
What Hardliners means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Hardliners
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Party figures who feared a loss of control and opposed de-Stalinisation, standing against the reformers.
Topics that use Hardliners
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–1964 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Agricultural policy and food security
- Anti-party group
- Cult of personality
- Cultural control and the 'Thaw'
- Cultural dissidents
- De-Stalinisation
- Economic centralisation versus decentralisation
- Economic mobilisation and resilience
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