Leadership and organisation
What Leadership and organisation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Oliver Tambo, acting president from 1967 and president from 1969 to 1991, directed the ANC from exile, built international support and maintained organisational unity.
Trotsky built the Red Army through conscription, discipline and the use of former tsarist officers, and used an armoured train to coordinate fronts.
Topics that use Leadership and organisation
- Defending the Bolshevik revolution, October 1917–24 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Redefining resistance and challenges to National Party power, 1968–83 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- ban on factions
- Black Consciousness
- Cheka
- Constituent Assembly
- Economic constraints
- Exile and internal resistance
- Geography and logistics
- International solidarity and diplomacy
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