History A-Level
Show trials
What Show trials means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Show trials
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Highly publicised trials in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were forced into false confessions and executed.
Topics that use Show trials
- 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 – Stalinism, politics and control, 1929–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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