History A-Level
Stalin's power
What Stalin's power means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Stalin's power
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Control over party and state, resting on terror, propaganda and patronage, making the USSR a totalitarian state.
Topics that use Stalin's power
- 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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