History A-Level
Party dominance
What Party dominance means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Party dominance
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The CCP set policy through its Central Committee, Politburo and, increasingly, Mao as chairman, making it the policy-making core.
Topics that use Party dominance
- 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
- Laogai system
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