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The Great Leap Forward (1958-62)
- Communes (Social)
- 750,000 collectives brought into 70,000 communes
- competition communes-officials lied about figures they had
produced. Government took percent output, no food left
- 10x sizes of collectives
- 750,000 collectives brought into 70,000 communes
- Backyard steel (industry)
- Stopped people farming
- Poor quality
- Stopped people farming
- Conspiracy of silence (social)
- People to afraid to criticise
because of anti-rightist campaign
- Lushan conference (1959), Peng Deuai criticised
method and was punished and kicked out of party.
- People to afraid to criticise
because of anti-rightist campaign
- Propaganda (social)
- "Reach for the stars
and the moon" -
overtake capitalist
countries.
- enforced mass mobilisation
- People shouted slogans to the
workers in the farms
- "Reach for the stars
and the moon" -
overtake capitalist
countries.
- Self-reliance (social)
- Mao fell out with USSR
- Wanted China to
be independent
- Mao fell out with USSR
- Famine (social/farming)
- 45 million died
- quarter
of Tibets
people
died
- people given 125g of grain a day - not enough
- 45 million died
- Poor farming methods (farming)
- Sparrowcide, killed sparrows to stop
eating grain but sparrows weren't
there to kill worms and bugs
- Bad weather - droughts 1959/1960 reduced to 144 million bones
- Lysenkoism
- deep planting, close together turned
out spindly -wrong method
- deep planting, close together turned
out spindly -wrong method
- Sparrowcide, killed sparrows to stop
eating grain but sparrows weren't
there to kill worms and bugs
- Family life (social)
- Communes everyone put
together with canteens and
dorms to sleep in
- Families didn't see
each other
- Elderlys in "happy homes" and babies in nurseries
- Families didn't see
each other
- Communes everyone put
together with canteens and
dorms to sleep in
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