History A-Level
Stability and stagnation
What Stability and stagnation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Stability and stagnation
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Brezhnev restored stability through collective leadership and conservative appointments, but this bred gerontocracy and corruption, and from 1982 to 1985 ageing leaders and economic decline produced growing political stagnation.
Topics that use Stability and stagnation
- Communist government in the USSR, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- De-Stalinisation
- Elimination of opponents
- Leadership and control
- Lenin's government
- One-party state
- Party congress and faction ban
- Purges and show trials
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