Great Leap Forward
Quinn Broman
Freshman Research Paper
The Great Leap Forward
4/18/13
Have you been worked so hard for something that was a failure all along? Civilians living in China in the 1930’s were worked to absolute death in an attempt to have an economy to rival American economies. This was lead by the dictator (so to say) at the time. He tried to have small groups of communities which had worker, farming, and cooking groups to better the economy because it used less materials and money.
The Great Leap Forward was one of the world’s worst famines lead by Mao Zedong in an attempt to rival American economies in the 1930’s. All was going well for a couple weeks, and then the steel came into play. Mao had every man and boy working in the caves mining for steel. They found some and started smelting it. The steel was so under par that it was degrading at one of the fastest rates, breaking down as they were building with it, falling apart. When this happened, the economy began to crash; like the buildings with the steel in it.
” The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) was founded in 1921 by Mao Zedong, who adapted the principles of Karl Marx and the experience in Russia to conditions particular to China. Mao had come of age during the “first revolution” in China in 1912, an era in which the Nationalist (KMT) party unseated the 3,000 year rule of the Qing Dynasty and formed the Republic of China under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen.”. (worldsavvy)
The Chinese, during this time were baffled as to why the people were being dying off, but they soon realized it was because of the over-working, lead by Mao; trying to have everyone work to improve their economy, but unintentionally to their deaths. There were 45 million deaths in the four years that the Great Leap Forward lasted, but it taught the Chinese to know the plans of their leadership so there are no great famines that end up in millions of deaths like this one, The Great Leap Forward.
Mao Zedong has chosen to
Freshman Research Paper
The Great Leap Forward
4/18/13
Have you been worked so hard for something that was a failure all along? Civilians living in China in the 1930’s were worked to absolute death in an attempt to have an economy to rival American economies. This was lead by the dictator (so to say) at the time. He tried to have small groups of communities which had worker, farming, and cooking groups to better the economy because it used less materials and money.
The Great Leap Forward was one of the world’s worst famines lead by Mao Zedong in an attempt to rival American economies in the 1930’s. All was going well for a couple weeks, and then the steel came into play. Mao had every man and boy working in the caves mining for steel. They found some and started smelting it. The steel was so under par that it was degrading at one of the fastest rates, breaking down as they were building with it, falling apart. When this happened, the economy began to crash; like the buildings with the steel in it.
” The Communist Chinese Party (CCP) was founded in 1921 by Mao Zedong, who adapted the principles of Karl Marx and the experience in Russia to conditions particular to China. Mao had come of age during the “first revolution” in China in 1912, an era in which the Nationalist (KMT) party unseated the 3,000 year rule of the Qing Dynasty and formed the Republic of China under the leadership of Sun Yat-sen.”. (worldsavvy)
The Chinese, during this time were baffled as to why the people were being dying off, but they soon realized it was because of the over-working, lead by Mao; trying to have everyone work to improve their economy, but unintentionally to their deaths. There were 45 million deaths in the four years that the Great Leap Forward lasted, but it taught the Chinese to know the plans of their leadership so there are no great famines that end up in millions of deaths like this one, The Great Leap Forward.
Mao Zedong has chosen to