EPISODE · Apr 19, 2025 · 20 MIN
China's Great Leap Forward: Mao's Failures and the Devastating Impact on Humanity
from The Veteran Author Podcast · host Jeff Woodward
The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) was Mao Zedong's attempt to collectivize farming and to transform communist China into a technological peer of the advanced industrialized nations. What resulted was the opposite: starvation, corruption, death, and in some circumstances, cannibalism, which resulted in the most devastating famine in human history. Our hosts examine the implementation and results of communist policies regarding collectivization and forced quotas.
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The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) was Mao Zedong's attempt to collectivize farming and to transform communist China into a technological peer of the advanced industrialized nations. What resulted was the opposite: starvation, corruption, death, and in some circumstances, cannibalism, which resulted in the most devastating famine in human history. Our hosts examine the implementation and results of communist policies regarding collectivization and forced quotas.
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