Leadership and organisation
What Leadership and organisation means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Brigham Young's highly organised movement of the Mormons, using advance parties, way stations and disciplined groups, ensuring the survival of thousands of followers.
Lenin provided the ideological drive and pressure on the Central Committee, while Trotsky, as President of the Petrograd Soviet, masterminded the tactical execution.
Trotsky's highly disciplined Red Army decisively defended central Russia, while the Whites were a fractured coalition with different aims and poor coordination.
Frank Crichlow's Mangrove Restaurant served as a vital meeting place for activists, including the British Black Panthers.
Topics that use Leadership and organisation
- Option 13: The historic environment - 1 Notting Hill, c1948–c1970 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 30: Key topic 1: The revolutions of 1917 - 4 The Bolshevik Revolution (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 30: Key topic 2: The Bolsheviks in power, 1917–24 - 2 The Civil War, 1918–21 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P3: Key topic 1: The early settlement of the West, c1835–c1862 - 2 Migration and early settlement (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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