History GCSE
Political manipulation and propaganda
What Political manipulation and propaganda means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Political manipulation and propaganda
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The trials were highly publicised and staged, creating a narrative of a massive anti-Soviet conspiracy that terrified the population into compliance.
Topics that use Political manipulation and propaganda
- Option 30: Key topic 3: Stalin’s rise to power and dictatorship, 1924–41 - 2 The use of terror in the 1930s (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Dictatorship and control
- Elimination of opposition
- Gulag
- Military vulnerability
- NKVD
- Political terror
- State terror
- The destruction of the Old Bolsheviks
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