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Great Leap Forward and the Famine (1958–1962)

Great Leap Forward and the Famine (1958–1962)

  1. Four Pests Campaign officially launched

    Labels: Four Pests
  2. Chayashan commune experiment launched in Henan

    Labels: Chayashan Commune
  3. Backyard steel furnace drive intensifies nationwide

    Labels: Backyard Furnaces
  4. Communes spread rapidly across rural China

    Labels: Rural Communes
  5. Lushan Conference debates Great Leap policies

    Labels: Lushan Conference
  6. Peng Dehuai’s critical letter to Mao

    Labels: Peng Dehuai
  7. Anti-Right Deviation Struggle launched after Lushan

    Labels: Anti-Right Deviation
  8. Central authorities learn of Xinyang catastrophe

    Labels: Xinyang Catastrophe
  9. Campaign against sparrows officially halted

    Labels: Anti-Sparrow Campaign
  10. Sino-Soviet rupture deepens with expert withdrawal

    Labels: Sino-Soviet Rupture
  11. Ninth Plenum adopts “adjustment and consolidation” line

    Labels: Ninth Plenum
  12. Guangzhou work conference issues “Sixty Articles” draft

    Labels: Sixty Articles
  13. Seven Thousand Cadres Conference reassesses Great Leap

    Labels: Seven Thousand
  14. Seven Thousand Cadres Conference concludes

    Labels: Seven Thousand
  15. Great Leap Forward period ends in official histories

    Labels: Great Leap