History A-Level
Nationalism and separatism
What Nationalism and separatism means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Nationalism and separatism
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Unrest that exploded in the Baltics and Caucasus, fracturing Soviet unity and accelerating the political crisis and dismantling of the Soviet empire.
Topics that use Nationalism and separatism
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
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- Authoritarianism versus democracy
- Crisis and collapse
- demokratizatsiya
- Economic decline
- Economic transition and crisis
- glasnost
- Leadership and political miscalculation
- perestroika
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