History GCSE
Living standards
What Living standards means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Living standards
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Consumer goods were scarce and of poor quality, and the burden of repaying Soviet loans exacerbated domestic shortages and rural poverty.
Topics that use Living standards
- Option 32: Key topic 2: Economic policy, 1949–65 - 2 Industry and the Five-Year Plan, 1953–57 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Agricultural challenges
- Industrialisation
- Modernisation
- Sino-Soviet relations
- Urbanisation
- Command economy
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