the gerat leap forward, 1956
Notes
- Mao's new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors:
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
Summary
The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change china from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern, industrial society in just five years.
Quotes
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
- Mao
- Mao
Subjunctive Question
How would China be different today if the great leap forward had no happened?
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