Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Stalin’s Rise and Dictatorship.
The creation of organised breakaway groups within the Communist Party, a practice strictly banned by Lenin in 1921 and weaponised by Stalin to expel rivals.
Factionalism appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Russia and the Soviet Union, especially Stalin’s Rise and Dictatorship and Struggle for Power.
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