History A-Level
One-party state
What One-party state means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of One-party state
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A system that emerged gradually after October 1917 through the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the exclusion of other parties and the ban on factions in 1921.
Topics that use One-party state
- Communist government in the USSR, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- De-Stalinisation
- Elimination of opponents
- Leadership and control
- Lenin's government
- Party congress and faction ban
- Purges and show trials
- Reform and reaction
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