The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
•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)
•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)
question
How much fauther ahead would China be if Mao didn't make such a disastrous situation?
What if people in China knew what Mao had done?
What if people in China knew what Mao had done?
summary
Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages.