History A-Level
Living Standards
What Living Standards means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Living Standards
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Reference: AQA
Social conditions improved significantly, with mass housing projects raising living standards.
Topics that use Living Standards
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – De-Stalinisation, 1953–1964 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Collective leadership
- Cultural Thaw
- De-Stalinisation
- Decentralisation
- Economic centralisation
- Economic reform
- Leadership Style
- Party Bureaucracy
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