State control
What State control means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Control of industry and agriculture, extended under War Communism and retained over heavy industry, banking and transport under the New Economic Policy.
Society remained strictly controlled, with renewed crackdowns on religion and persistent censorship limiting genuine freedom.
Control exercised by the state, which War Communism and the NEP later shifted.
Topics that use State control
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–1964 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Collectivisation
- Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
- Agricultural policy and food security
- Anti-party group
- Centralisation of power
- Cheka
- Command economy and industrialisation
- Continuity and change
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