History A-Level
Repression and terror
What Repression and terror means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Repression and terror
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Attacks on opponents of the government through arrest, imprisonment and execution, with mass terror under Stalin and less mass terror later.
Topics that use Repression and terror
- Control of the people, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
- Continuity and change in control methods
- Continuity and change in cultural policy
- Ideology and cultural production
- Propaganda
- Resistance and conformity
- State control versus artistic freedom
- Leadership of the secret police
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