Great Leap Forward
Britishnoun
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His relentless pursuit of steel production at the expense of farm work during the Great Leap Forward contributed to a famine, causing as many as tens of millions of deaths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution - campaigns led by Communist China's founder to reshape the nation's economy and society - resulted in millions of deaths.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Which world leader’s Great Leap Forward campaign, intended to increase food production, instead resulted in the starvation of millions?
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2023
More people died in China last year than were born for the first time since Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, an experiment that caused widespread famine and death, despite efforts to bolster the birthrate.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
The Great Leap Forward coincides with the first proven major extension of human geographic range since our ancestors’ colonization of Eurasia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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