by Assistant Professor Dali Yang U. of Chicago
Sunday, May. 22, 2005 at 5:12 PM
The Great Leap Forward was the formation of Peoples Communes and the Collectivization of Farmland. Rural Chinese Citizens were ordered to work on vast agro-industrial projects that failed and plant wheat in rice-growing areas.Mao and other communists
Mao and other communists ordered the rural chinese to "make steel" in their backyards without ore. These schemes too failed and the result was the largest famine in the world much larger than the famine in Ireland or in North Korea or Ethiopia.
