Social and cultural policies
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Define indoctrination.
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Teaching people to accept a set of beliefs uncritically, especially through schools and youth movements.
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Define cult of personality.
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Building a heroic, almost god-like public image of the leader so people feel devotion and loyalty to him.
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What is socialist realism?
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The official Soviet art style — heroic, optimistic images of workers, peasants and Stalin designed to 'serve the people'.
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What was the Hitler Youth?
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The Nazi youth movement (with the League of German Girls) that drilled loyalty, racial ideas and fitness into young Germans.
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What were the Komsomol and Young Pioneers?
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Soviet youth organisations that trained children and teenagers in communist values and loyalty to the state.
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What was the 1933 Reich Concordat?
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An agreement between Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church; the Nazis soon broke its spirit and harassed the clergy.
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What was Soviet state atheism?
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The USSR's policy of promoting atheism — closing churches, persecuting priests and discouraging religion.
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What was the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition (1937)?
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A Nazi exhibition mocking modern art as un-German, used to justify banning artists who didn't fit Nazi taste.
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What was Strength Through Joy?
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A Nazi leisure programme giving workers cheap holidays and trips — buying loyalty while controlling free time.
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What was Cuba's 1961 Literacy Campaign?
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Castro's campaign sending young 'brigadistas' to teach reading across the island — spreading revolutionary loyalty too.
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Aims vs results of social policy — in one line?
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Aim: remake people into a loyal 'new person'. Result: broad outward conformity, but inner belief and the churches often survived.
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Paper 2 rule for choosing states?
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Use two authoritarian states from two DIFFERENT regions (e.g. Germany/Europe + China/Asia), and compare theme by theme.
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