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  • Thumbnail for Great Leap Forward
    The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist...
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  • 1962. Great Leap Forward may also refer to: Great Leap Forward (evolution), a theory explaining behavioral modernity in humans "The Great Leap Forward" (The...
    549 bytes (114 words) - 17:29, 16 April 2023
  • "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" is a 1988 song by English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg. The song was released as an advance single from the album...
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    monks were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Pot has been described as "a genocidal tyrant". Sociologist Martin Shaw described the...
    14 KB (1,519 words) - 13:04, 19 October 2024
  • major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the...
    90 KB (9,178 words) - 17:57, 19 October 2024
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    transition to behavioral modernity has been characterized by some as a "Great Leap Forward", or as the "Upper Palaeolithic Revolution", due to the sudden appearance...
    263 KB (26,340 words) - 17:42, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1975 Banqiao Dam failure
    dams was also compromised due to the Great Leap Forward. The Banqiao dam had been designed for a calculated one in a thousand year rainfall event of 300 mm...
    30 KB (3,168 words) - 16:19, 21 October 2024
  • The Great Leap Forward is a band formed by former Big Flame member Alan Brown, when his previous band split up in 1987. After several releases the project...
    7 KB (796 words) - 18:55, 28 August 2023
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    People's commune (category Great Leap Forward)
    communes quickly became party line and a central pillar of the Great Leap Forward. As the Great Leap Forward got underway, the state consolidated HAPCs...
    46 KB (6,218 words) - 17:09, 18 August 2024
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    (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài) was one of the first campaigns of the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China from 1958 to 1962. Authorities targeted four "pests"...
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  • published editorials "Setting off a Great Leap Forward in Literacy on a Grand Scale" and "Eliminating Illiteracy with a Revolutionary Spirit." At that time...
    52 KB (6,229 words) - 15:21, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)
    the early 1950s on, including land reform, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The Great Chinese Famine, one of the worst famines in human...
    47 KB (5,528 words) - 01:31, 26 October 2024
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    1958, he launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial, which led to the Great Chinese Famine and the...
    195 KB (21,738 words) - 04:00, 28 October 2024
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    Backyard furnace (category Great Leap Forward)
    during the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). These were constructed in the fields and backyards of communes to further the Great Leap Forward's aims of making...
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  • China after his political sidelining, in the aftermath of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Chinese Famine. In May 1966, with the help of the Cultural...
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  • Thumbnail for Peng Dehuai
    Peng Dehuai (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from October 2023)
    attempts to develop a personality cult throughout the 1950s; and, when Mao's economic policies associated with the Great Leap Forward caused a nationwide famine...
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  • we can do it well" became popular. Despite that Great Leap Forward Movement ultimately resulted in a devastating famine, it paved the way for women's...
    26 KB (2,936 words) - 17:16, 20 September 2024
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    and was fashioned with military-like strategies that emulated the Great Leap Forward. On December 19, 2007, approved by the Beijing Municipal People's...
    27 KB (2,814 words) - 12:01, 21 August 2024
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    Three Red Banners (category Great Leap Forward)
    own food and instead ate in communal dining halls. The Great Leap Forward, begun in 1958, was a campaign to rapidly modernize by using China's vast labor...
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  • Launching satellites (category Great Leap Forward)
    to a socialist construction campaign that began in 1958 during the "Great Leap Forward" and was anxious for success by 1959. During the Great Leap Forward...
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