History A-Level
Central planning and industrialisation
What Central planning and industrialisation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Central planning and industrialisation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Socialist economics meant state ownership and central planning through five-year plans, with industrial development prioritising heavy industry, though output was hampered by reparations, material shortages and unrealistic targets.
Topics that use Central planning and industrialisation
- Establishing and consolidating communist rule in the GDR, c1949–61 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation and the weakening of federal structures
- Communist consolidation through party merger
- Constitutional forms and one-party reality
- Emigration and economic drain
- Growing Cold War divisions among the victor powers
- Popular opposition and state repression
- SED dominance of state institutions
- Soviet exploitation and reparations
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