History GCSE
Repression and censorship
What Repression and censorship means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Repression and censorship
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Mao's swift and ruthless reaction of halting the campaign and launching the Anti-Rightist Campaign in mid-1957.
Topics that use Repression and censorship
- Option 32: Key topic 1: Establishing communist rule, 1945–59 - 4 The Hundred Flowers campaign, 1956–57 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anti-Rightist purge
- Authoritarian control
- Laogai
- political control and repression
- Political opposition
- The role of intellectuals
- rightists
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