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Great leapforward
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- 1Late 195690% o rural populace in Agricultural production Units
- 2Primary goals of Great Leap ForwardMarshal peoples and give them a stack in creation of new china
- 3Commune Mess hall– replaced the family meal as the traditional centerpiece of family life , meant there were 3 extra hours for work/stud; increased labor productivity 30%
- 4Great Leap forward and Women- Six million units of female labor were released from domestic chores, Women freed from daily responsibility of cooking and child care ‘ 90% performed farm lbor between 1958-9 ‘ but liberation shot lived since women now serve state instead of family
- 5Mass mobilization projectsmobilization of labor for water control and irrigation; more than 1 million workers can be mobilize for a particular project ; by 1958 over 100 million peasants worked on projects which enabled over 19 million acres to be irrigated
- 6Ke QingshiPolitburo member close to Mao … ' it is all right to worship Chairman Mao to the extent of having blind faith in him
- 7Resistance to Great Leap ForwardZhou Enlai and Chen Yun, who belied it is essential to maintain balance economic development and societal transformation, rash advance is opposed
- 8Peng DehaiPeng Dehai – Defense minister, looses position after he proposes evaluation of loss and achievements of Great Leap forward, denounced at Lushan conference
- 91958Great Leap forward is launched
- 101962After the worst famine is history Great Leap forward is recognized as a failure and stooped
- 11December 1958December 1958
- 12Backyard Steel furnaceat least 1 million steel furnaces in China. People contribute iro tools and implements for the making of pig iron. Fails because manufacturing techniques lead to fault produce
idealistic populism - sense that if the people had a participatory stake in production, their energies would be released and production would increase dramatically
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