History A-Level
Leadership and political miscalculation
What Leadership and political miscalculation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Leadership and political miscalculation
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Reasons for Gorbachev's apparent failure include his inability to balance competing factions, disastrous economic outcomes of Perestroika, and fatal underestimation of nationalism.
Topics that use Leadership and political miscalculation
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Authoritarianism versus democracy
- Crisis and collapse
- demokratizatsiya
- Economic decline
- Economic transition and crisis
- glasnost
- Nationalism and separatism
- perestroika
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