The Great Leap Forward | Mao Zedong and the History of China
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"Great Leap Forward" aimed to galvanize China's economic development. Review the major components of this initiative, including mass mobilization of rural workers in water works projects, backyard steel production, impersonal people's communes, and their final catastrophic failure through faulty engineering and massive bureaucratic errors.
Presented by Richard Baum
From The Series "The Fall and Rise of China"
https://www.wondrium.com/youtube/the-fall-and-rise-of-china
0:00 Mao vs. Russians in Race to Communism
0:36 Problems with Soviet-Style Socialism
1:44 How Farmers were Mobilized
4:38 Decline of Intellectualism
5:36 Shift to Communalism
6:27 Female Liberation or More Drudgery?
7:59 People's Commune Becomes New Ideal
9:59 Wild Media Claims on Farming Innovations
11:29 Large-Scale Division of Labor Begins
12:07 Notorious Blast Furnace Campaign
14:16 War against Nature
16:39 Eliminating Capitalism
18:40 Inflated Food Quotas Pressure Leaders
20:49 Infrastructure Failures
24:07 Lasting Environmental Damage
24:39 Free Rider Problems
25:38 Food Shortage Issues
26:38 Optimism Turns to Despair
27:59 Mao Admits Failures of Movement
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