History A-Level
Social transformation and control
What Social transformation and control means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Social transformation and control
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Strict discipline, rapid urbanisation, the 'Great Retreat' in family policies and widespread fear generated by the secret police, leaving a society both modernised and deeply traumatised.
Topics that use Social transformation and control
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- Cheka
- Collectivisation
- Command economy and industrialisation
- Continuity and change
- faction
- Great Purges
- Ideological adaptation
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