History A-Level
Reform and reaction within the Soviet system
What Reform and reaction within the Soviet system means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Gorbachev's reforms split the reformist camp into radicals demanding faster democratisation and marketisation and moderates favouring gradual change, while conservative opposition came from those seeing glasnost and perestroika as threats.
Topics that use Reform and reaction within the Soviet system
- 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
- Dissidents
- Nationalism and empire
- Pressure for change
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