History A-Level
Lower-stage cooperatives
What Lower-stage cooperatives means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Lower-stage cooperatives
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Cooperatives where members pooled land for shares, in contrast to higher-stage collectives where land became collective property paid for by labour-days.
Topics that use Lower-stage cooperatives
- Agriculture and industry, 1949–65 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Attacks on landlordism
- Central planning and heavy-industry prioritisation
- Collectivisation and communal living
- Enforced collectivisation
- Famine and state extraction
- Industrial growth and structural imbalance
- Mutual-aid teams
- Policy reversal and inner-party conflict
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