History A-Level
Pressure for change
What Pressure for change means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Pressure for change
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Multiple pressures facing the Soviet system by 1985 that made reform urgent and explain why Gorbachev pursued change.
Topics that use Pressure for change
- Paper 3, Option 38.1: The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991 - 5 Gorbachev and the downfall of Soviet communism, 1985–91 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Administrative reform
- Economic decline
- glasnost
- Leadership rivalry and the erosion of central authority
- perestroika
- Reform and reaction within the Soviet system
- Dissidents
- Nationalism and empire
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