The Great Leap Forward
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- Created on: 02-04-14 16:40
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- The Great Leap Forward
- Aims
- Industrialisation
- Be on par with USSR and the West
- Overtake Britain within seven years and then catch up with the US
- Predicted 700 million tonnes of steel by 1970s
- Autarky
- Breakdown of Sino-Soviet relationship: 'peaceful co'existence with West'
- Further aims of socialism and MZT
- Socialisation
- De-centralisation: remove power from central gvt. and give to local party cadres
- Communes to function as local governments
- Mass mobilisation of the peasants
- De-centralisation: remove power from central gvt. and give to local party cadres
- Industrialisation
- Successes
- Women were brought into the workforce
- Meant that women could work - emancipation of women
- Access to education improved due to availability in communes
- Women were brought into the workforce
- Failures
- Steel produced in backyard furnaces was poor quality - unusable
- Lacked scientific knowledge so used any steel which made it impure and weak
- Famine/ Reduction in grain
- Caused by poor weather: droughts in north, floods in south
- Could also be caused by falsified statistics: Mao thought the policy was succeeding so he continued it when actually it was destroying agriculture.
- approx. 50 million died
- Propaganda: people told the GLF was working so they ate more and had no incentive to work hard so grain production decreased
- Lysenkoism: deep ploughing and close planting, Russian 'scientist' who said these techniques would increase yield
- Complete failure which led to reduction in grain
- Also involved Sparrowcide because sparrows ate grain/seeds but they also ate insects who fed on plants
- Lack of experts: either withdrawn when Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorated or purged in the Hundred Flowers Campaign
- Mao failed to recognise failures so continued the policy
- Lushan Conference: Pend Dehuai spoke out against GLF and was denounced
- No one else wanted to speak out for fear of denunciation
- Silenced by the Hundred Flowers Campaign
- Steel produced in backyard furnaces was poor quality - unusable
- What actually happened
- Peasants organised into communes
- Kindergartens and 'happiness homes'
- Meant that women could work - emancipation of women
- Communes had 'backyard furnaces
- All peasants would work together and share resources. A portion would be requisitioned by the State.
- Communes to function as local governments
- Eradicate private family spheres: 'bourgeois family attachments'
- Kindergartens and 'happiness homes'
- It was the 2nd 5YP
- 1958 - 1962
- Peasants organised into communes
- Consequences
- DEATH
- 50 million peasants
- Extreme cases involved cannibalism due to extreme hunger
- In factories - poor training and accidents
- Mao was forced to resign from Head of State
- He lost face which ultimately led to the Cultural Revolution
- He felt like an 'old ancestor'
- Control given to 3 moderates: Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaopeng and Zhou Enlai
- Moderates used policies to achieve economic stability - needed to be slightly capitalist
- Poor harvest
- Famine/ Reduction in grain
- Caused by poor weather: droughts in north, floods in south
- Could also be caused by falsified statistics: Mao thought the policy was succeeding so he continued it when actually it was destroying agriculture.
- approx. 50 million died
- Propaganda: people told the GLF was working so they ate more and had no incentive to work hard so grain production decreased
- Lysenkoism: deep ploughing and close planting, Russian 'scientist' who said these techniques would increase yield
- Complete failure which led to reduction in grain
- Also involved Sparrowcide because sparrows ate grain/seeds but they also ate insects who fed on plants
- Lack of experts: either withdrawn when Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorated or purged in the Hundred Flowers Campaign
- Famine/ Reduction in grain
- Weak steel produced from backyard furnaces
- Steel produced in backyard furnaces was poor quality - unusable
- Lacked scientific knowledge so used any steel which made it impure and weak
- Steel produced in backyard furnaces was poor quality - unusable
- DEATH
- Aims
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