History A-Level
Totalitarianism and dictatorship
What Totalitarianism and dictatorship means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Totalitarianism and dictatorship
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A highly centralised state under Stalin's undisputed political control, achieved through the elimination of rivals and the 1936 Constitution.
Topics that use Totalitarianism and dictatorship
- 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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