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Bookmark or Share- The Great Leap Forward and the Famine - Chinese Studies - Oxford ...Mao Zedong’s campaign called the “Great Leap Forward” (1958–1961) (大跃进) aimed to transform China into a modern industrial nation and to prepare China for communism in the near future. However, the Great Leap resulted in one of the greatest disasters in history.
- The Great Chinese Famine - Alpha History1. The Great Famine or Great Chinese Famine was a period of low agricultural production, food shortages and mass starvation in China, from 1959 to 1961. 2. The CCP government attributes the famine to natural disasters such as droughts, floods, typhoons and pests.
- Great Chinese Famine - WikipediaThe major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign ...
- Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe ...6-8% of the victims of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) were either tortured to death or summarily executed—that is 2.5 million people. This is the new dimension to our understanding of the GLF that Mao's Great Famine brings—the political terror at the base of those dreadful years.
- Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral ... - JSTOROn January 25, 2005, two days before the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Zuzana Ruzickova, one of Europe’s most respected harpsichordists and a Holocaust survivor, spoke about the importance of remembering such human tragedies.
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