History A-Level
Unintended consequences
What Unintended consequences means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Unintended consequences
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Democratisation provided a platform for nationalist movements and weakened the authority of the Communist Party, outcomes that went beyond Gorbachev's intentions.
Topics that use Unintended consequences
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985–2000 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Authoritarianism versus democracy
- Crisis and collapse
- demokratizatsiya
- Economic decline
- Economic transition and crisis
- glasnost
- Leadership and political miscalculation
- Nationalism and separatism
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