History GCSE
Urbanisation and housing
What Urbanisation and housing means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Urbanisation and housing
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Rapid urbanisation led to severe overcrowding, with families often sharing single rooms in communal apartments and facing chronic shortages of food and basic goods.
Topics that use Urbanisation and housing
- Option 30: Key topic 4: Economic and social changes, 1924–41 - 3 Life in the Soviet Union (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Labour discipline and state control
- Nomenklatura
- Rural hardship and collectivisation
- Social stratification
- Standard of living
- Gulag system
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