History A-Level
Legal systems
What Legal systems means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Legal systems
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Weaponised instruments of state repression that abandoned judicial independence to punish political opposition.
Topics that use Legal systems
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – Soviet Satellites, 1953–1968 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- censorship
- Economic centralisation versus reform
- Economic realities versus socialist theory
- Emigration restrictions
- Ideological indoctrination
- Political repression and dissent
- Secret police systems
- Social control and conformity
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