Great Leap Forward
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Program instituted by Chinese Dictator Mao Zedong from 1958 to 1961 to nationalize industry and agriculture. Resulted in famine and economic disaster and what modern Chinese history refers to as Three Years of Disasters.
See also
- 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"