Great Leap Forward

Period

1958 – 1962

Region

China

Category

Economy

The Great Leap Forward was an industrialization campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, initiated by the Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, whose goal was to transform the country from an agrarian society to an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes. The Great Leap Forward led to between 15 and 55 million deaths in mainland China during the 1959–1961 Great Chinese Famine it caused, making it the largest or second-largest famine in human history.

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