Great Leap Forward

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What was the time period of the Great Leap Forward?
1958-1966
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What was the goal of the Great Leap Forward?
free China from Soviet Dominion
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What did the Great Leap Forward try to transform China into?
a radical egalitarian society
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What did the Great Leap Forward reorganizes China into?
communes that would serve all basic, social, and economic functions
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What are backyard furnaces?
where people would try to make steel in the countryside
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How did Mao try to carry out the Great Leap Forward?
Mass mobilization
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What did the Red vs. Expert emphasize?
party workers, not bureaucrats running the gov't
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Who are cadres?
party workers at the lowest level
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What is decentralization?
when message of people can do it was pushed
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What was the outcome of the Great Leap Forward?
Failure & famine
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What efforts were made to transform China during the Great Leap Forward?
Utopian effort
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What were cadres expected to demonstrate?
party devolution by encouraging people to work hard