Question
Would Mao still have been perceived as such a great hero if more people knew about the 30,000,000 deaths that resulted from The Great Leap Forward?
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
•Mao’s new economic plan after five year plans criticized •China organized into 28,000 communes
•Main factors:
•Great industrial and scientific activity (Didn't happen)
•Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
•Small communal factories
•Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
•Main factors:
•Great industrial and scientific activity (Didn't happen)
•Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
•Small communal factories
•Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
Summary
After Mao's five year plan was criticized he decided to bring in the new economic plan which was based on quotas. China was organized into 28,000 communes and people were put to work building things such as dams and irrigation. Because China didn't have that kind of technology people had to build these things simply by hand. People were pulled out of their jobs to work in factories and most of these people were famers which meant that they didn't know how to properly do the jobs they were asked to as well as no one was manning their farms so there was a huge famine. This ended in 30,000 people dying.