Mao’s Great Leap: Was It More Successful Than We Thought?
[In this first of a two-part series, we sketch the pressures leading to the Mao’s Great Leap Forward and its early successes. In Part Two we will examine its failures and Mao’s subsequent disgrace]. After the revolution China’s landlords, the world’s oldest hereditary caste, retained enough land to live on, but their class vanished from […]
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