The Great Leap Forward 195862

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Become a Simple History member: https://www.youtube.com/simplehistory... • Support us on Patreon: / simplehistory • Land reform, where estates had been taken from rich landowners and redistributed to the peasants had taken place shortly after the communists had come to power. • Collectivisation, where peasants lost their own pieces of land and instead worked for wages on land owned by the state had also begun to take place. • Mao believed this was not enough to expand both agricultural and industrial production and instead introduced the second five-year plan in 1958. • This would become known as the ‘Great Leap Forward’. • Copyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media. • SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE • Get the Simple History books on Amazon: • https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner-... • T-Shirts • https://teespring.com/stores/simple-h... • Simple history gives you the facts, simple! • See the book collection here: • Amazon USA • http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner/e... • • Amazon UK • http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Turner... • • / simple-history-549437675141192 • / simplehistoryyt • • Credit: • Created by Daniel Turner • Narrator: • Chris Kane • https://vocalforge.com/ • Music Credit: • Decline by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) • Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... • Artist: http://incompetech.com/ • • Sources: • Tombstone. The Untold story of Mao’s Great Famine. • By Yang Jisheng. • Red Inc.: Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949-2009 • By Robert K. Schaeffer • Socialism in China (1919-1965) • By Yu Youjun • Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 • By Frank Dikötter • The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History

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