🌍ap world history: modern review

Central planning

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

The communist economic system in which the state centrally controls all production decisions, resource allocation, and distribution rather than relying on market mechanisms.

AP course connection

Topic 8.4: 8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900

Unit 8