Repression and control
What Repression and control means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The government's crushing of remaining opposition after the October Manifesto, in both town and countryside, which restored tsarist authority but alienated many.
Suppression of leftist and separatist groups, alongside strict censorship, used to establish control in the Nationalist zone.
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