The story of Great Leap Forward
The Party's campaign from 1958 for rapid growth, together with the rural people's communes.
1958–1962
Great Leap Forward. The Party’s campaign from 1958 for rapid growth, together with the rural people’s communes.
25 Mar 1959
Mao Zedong intervened in Great Leap Forward. At a Shanghai meeting on 25 March 1959, Dikötter writes in a 2010 newspaper article, ordered the Party to procure up to a third of the available grain; Dikötter says Mao knew of the horror in the countryside.
According to Frank Dikötter. This is one side’s account, not established fact.
Great Leap Forward involved the Communist Party of China and the Soviet government.
According to the Communist Party of China.
Great Leap Forward caused the Great Chinese Famine.
According to Cormac Ó Gráda, Yang Jisheng and the Communist Party of China, each in its own account.
Great Leap Forward, interventions: Mao Zedong.
According to the Communist Party of China.
Great Leap Forward includes Lushan meeting of 1959.
According to the Communist Party of China.
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