History A-Level
Economic centralisation versus decentralisation
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Stalin's highly centralised command economy under Gosplan contrasted with Khrushchev's attempt at decentralisation through the Sovnarkhozy, created to reduce bureaucratic inefficiency.
Topics that use Economic centralisation versus decentralisation
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–1964 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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