History A-Level
Command planning
What Command planning means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Command planning
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A system that replaced market signals, with Gosplan allocating resources under the Five-Year Plans.
Topics that use Command planning
- Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
- Collectivisation
- Five Year Plans
- Fourth Five-Year Plan
- Limited reform under Brezhnev
- Nationalisation
- New Economic Policy
- State control
Using Command planning in the exam
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