History A-Level
Reform and reaction
What Reform and reaction means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Reform and reaction
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Khrushchev tried to reform government by reducing the secret police's arbitrary power and separating party and state roles, but reform destabilised the elite and led to his removal in 1964.
Topics that use Reform and reaction
- 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
- One-party state
- Party congress and faction ban
- Purges and show trials
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