History A-Level
Pressure for reform from below
What Pressure for reform from below means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Pressure for reform from below
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
It grew as citizens compared their restricted lives with the greater openness in the USSR, while the government insisted there was no need for change.
Topics that use Pressure for reform from below
- Growing crises and the collapse of communist rule in the GDR (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Consumer dissatisfaction and quality of goods
- Dependence on West Germany and intra-German relations
- Economic decline and debt in the planned economy
- Honecker's dismissal
- Mass emigration
- Opening of the Berlin Wall
- Protestant opposition and civil society
- Soviet reform and its reception in the GDR
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