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Reform, stability & stagnation - Coggle Diagram
Reform, stability & stagnation
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Anti-Party group
- ks reforms & problems w/ destalinisation led to attempt to overthrow K
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- K argued decision to replace him could only be done by Central committee (he had majority support here)
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- K consolidated position in March 1958 by becoming PM
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- senior coms no longer use political terror against each other
- recognised power of party leader depended on support of Central Committee
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Khrushchevs fall
- reforms created discontent in party & economic reforms failed to boost growth
- late 1950s - economy slowed → no pos. of fulfilling Ks promises
- conerns that foreign policy was rash & dangerous
→ Oct K criticised for mishandling economy, FP & creating CoP
- June 1964 - senior figures in Presidium began plotting Ks overthrow
- plotters had majority backing them and so K retired & was given a pension
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