History A-Level
Laogai system
What Laogai system means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Laogai system
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Network of forced labour camps for punishment and ‘reform’ of opponents, expanding after 1949 and becoming a key instrument of control.
Topics that use Laogai system
- Establishing communist rule (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Civil war devastation
- Consolidation of Communist control through external conflict
- Democratic centralism
- Economic weakness
- five antis
- Human and economic costs of war
- Infrastructure collapse
- Military-political fusion
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