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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 / Frank Dikötter | |
Publisher: Walker & Company | |
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A Look Inside Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
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Autumn 1955–Spring 1956: Mao, displeased with the slow pace of economic development, pushes for huge increases in the production of grain, cotton, coal and steel. | November 1957: Mao visits Moscow. Impressed by the Soviet sputnik, the first satellite launched into orbit, he declares that the ‘East wind will prevail over the West wind’. | Summer 1958: Farm collectives are amalgamated into gigantic people’s communes of up to 20,000 households. Famine conditions appear in many parts of the country. |