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Stalin's legacy

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A complex inheritance at home and abroad: a heavily industrialised but terrorised society with a stagnant agricultural sector, and a deeply divided world.

AQA · 2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 – The Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s Dictatorship, 1941–1953 (A-level only) (study guide)

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2N Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953 – The Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s Dictatorship, 1941–1953 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)

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