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The Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) was a campaign to nationalize industry and agriculture in China, instituted by Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung, which included collectivizing farmland. Peasants were forced to produce steel in backyard furnaces to raise China's steel output. The whole ill-conceived venture resulted in widespread famine, economic disaster and what modern Chinese history now refers to as Three Years of Disasters. As estimates vary, the Communist inspired democide was believed to result in the deaths of at least 45 million people.[1] Deng Xiaoping claimed the death toll to be 16 million, while the lowest estimate is 8 million. [2]
See also
- Virginius Frank Coe
- Solomon Adler
- Anita Dunn
- Van Jones
- Carl Davidson
- Michael Klonsky
- Green Leap Forward
References
- ↑ Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010), ISBN 0802777686, p. 325
- ↑ Mao: The Real Story by Alexander P. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, pg. 472
External links
- Rectification in Yan’an—Creating the Most Fearsome Methods in Persecution, "The rectification movement in Yan’an was the largest, darkest and most ferocious power game ever played out in the human world"