History A-Level
Stalinist legacy
What Stalinist legacy means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Stalinist legacy
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A highly centralised command economy and a society paralysed by terror and Stalin's intense paranoia, exemplified by the Doctors' Plot.
Topics that use Stalinist legacy
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – De-Stalinisation, 1953–1964 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collective leadership
- Cultural Thaw
- De-Stalinisation
- Decentralisation
- Economic centralisation
- Economic reform
- Leadership Style
- Party Bureaucracy
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