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  2. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] [12] Acknowledging responsibilities for the Great Leap Forward, Mao did not retreat from his policies; instead, he blamed problems on bad implementation and "rightists" who opposed him. [12] [6] He initiated the Socialist Education Movement in 1963 and the Cultural Revolution in 1966 in order to remove opposition and re-consolidate ...

  3. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    Half of the country. Death rate were highest in Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%). [1] Period: 1959–1961: Total deaths: 15–55 million: Theory: Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors. Consequences: Termination of the Great Leap Forward campaign

  4. List of famines in China - Wikipedia

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    Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history This is a List of famines in China , part of the series of lists of disasters in China . Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China , or once nearly every year in one province or another.

  5. List of disasters in China by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Deaths Causes Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30

  6. Mao's Great Famine - Wikipedia

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    Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...

  7. Diaries of Mao's secretary at the center of a legal battle ...

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    But he was expelled from the party the following year over his criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao that led an estimated 30 million to 40 million ...

  8. Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, which aimed to transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial; it resulted in the Great Chinese Famine. In 1966, Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution , a campaign to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements, marked by violent class struggle , destruction of historical artifacts, and Mao's ...

  9. What history can teach us about A.I.’s Great Leap Forward - AOL

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    Everything is possible for A.I. because so little has happened. And like China's potential in the 1950s, the possibility for growth appears unbounded.