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Mao's Economic Reforms (The Great leap Forward (GLF) (by late 1958…

- - - - Collectivization: At first collectivization was voluntary
        
        step 1: Mutual aid teams 1953. 6-8 families to share tools, animals and equipment. Land was still privately owned so they could sell the goods for profit.
        
        Step 2: Cooperative farming, 20-30 families (200-300 people)working on 1 farm. Land now became part of the collective and farmers now could not sell or consume crops grown on the land.
        
        Cooperative farming's pay was based off of investment. This favored wealthier peasants as they had more tools, animals
        
        Coop farming attracted poorer peasants because they did not own their own tools, and wealthier families must work harder to make up for losses. Due to collectivization being voluntary most wealthier peasants did not join, and cadres allowed other to leave collectives
        
        Summer 1955 Mao: "Masses demand collectivization" and the cadres not working hard enough.
        
        With this collectivization efforts increase dramatically despite collectivization were supposed to be gradual.
        
        Feb 1956- 50% of farms collectivized. Dec 1956- 90% of farms Collectivized
        
        at Full collectivization around 100-200 families (500-1000 people) were in 1 collective, all income was based off of work points.
        
        results: only 2-35 of overall growth.
        
        20-25% were forced into collectives
        
        the bigger the collective the weaker the incentive to work
        
        Generally successful
    - - K. Promised the following: money, 200 million for building industry, end of soviet special provisions in Manchuria, and soviet experts in industry
    - - 1956; all urban industry converted to state property and all payments to owners were cancelled. company owners were allowed to stay on the board.
- - - - Stage 1:Party officials created by village peasants association. This association decided people's lives by determining their class position.
        
        Stage 2: each family assign class status: Poor Peasant (65% of china's population), Middle Peasant (20% of peasants classified middle), Rich peasants (10% of peasants. Part laborers and exploiters), and Landlords (3% of China's population)
        
        stage 3:Speaking bitterness campaigns. People publicly humiliated, Land lords executed (800,000 to 1 million)
        
        Burned land deeds.
        
        By 1953 the rural power structure was completely overturned
- - - - aimed to destroy the old socialist society and create a new one.
        
        Red guard- young people who idolized Mao, that killed and or beat people who were critical of Mao. The red guard purged anyone that Mao didn't like
- - - - due to back yard furnaces, the countryside has been stripped of wood
- - - - Lushan conference 1959. Peng complains about how the GLF was starving the people. Peng placed put under house arrest and GLF continued
  - - - grain production dropped by 15%
        
        Famine set in and Mao blames wealthy peasants and bad weather
        
        by 1961 30 million died of mall nutrition
        
        Famine ended with Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaping, reduced the size of communes .