The Great Leap Forward, 1956
Notes:
- Mao’s new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors:
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
SUMMARY :
Mao wanted to divide China into factions which were required to produce quotes of product. Wanted to have manpower as opposed to teachers or other non producing workers. Famine had killed 30,000,000 people because of Mao's policy of industrialization.
Quotes:
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Subjunctive questions:
Why is the death of 30,000,000 Chinese people not as well known as the holocaust?