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The Great Leap Forward (Reasons for the Great Leap Forward (With the…
The Great Leap Forward
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A confidence trick
Mao believed that his targets could be achieved by ‘people’s hearts and minds’, and by mass labour.
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It later emerged they were built not by peasant labourers, but by soldiers, with state funding.
The commune
Industrialisation was to be achieved, not in the towns, but in each commune
The commune was supposed to provide its families with all they needed, including hospitals and schools.
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State control
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State-controlled targets were set, and constantly revised upwards.
None of these targets were achieved, but officials constantly claimed they had been exceeded.