Person

Peng Dehuai

Marshal and defence minister who wrote to Mao Zedong during the Lushan meeting of July 1959.

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Lushan meeting of 1959 14 Jul 1959 wrote Mao a letter on 14 July 1959 praising the Leap's gains and listing its faults Primary record 1 2

Lushan meeting of 1959 According to Communist Party of China Primary record 3
The 1981 resolution calls the decision against Peng and three others entirely wrong, and says a majority of those unjustifiably criticized were rehabilitated.

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Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal: The Autobiographical Notes of Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), appendix: letter to Chairman Mao of 14 July 1959, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1984. Primary record
Now I am stating, specially for your reference, a number of my views that I have not expressed fully at the group meetings.
A growing tendency towards boasting and exaggeration on a fairly extensive scale.
At the Beidaihe Meeting last year, the grain output was overestimated.
In the nationwide campaign for the production of iron and steel, too many small blast furnaces were built with a waste of material, money and manpower.
Considering the above-mentioned points alone, we can say that our achievements have been really great
Great Leap into Famine (UCD Centre for Economic Research working paper WP11/03), University College Dublin, Jan 2011. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Peng’s protests, in any case, were less about the famine per se than the follies of the Leap in its first phase.
Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (text on the Marxists Internet Archive), 27 Jun 1981. Primary record
The resolution passed by the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party concerning the so-called anti-Party group of Peng Dehuai, Huang Kecheng, Zhang Wentian and Zhou Xiaozhou was entirely wrong.

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