History A-Level
Leadership and control
What Leadership and control means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Leadership and control
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Collective leadership after 1953 gave way to Khrushchev's personal rule, then back to collective stability under Brezhnev.
Topics that use Leadership and control
- Communist government in the USSR, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- De-Stalinisation
- Elimination of opponents
- Lenin's government
- One-party state
- Party congress and faction ban
- Purges and show trials
- Reform and reaction
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