The Great Leap Forward

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1. Wikipedia: The Great Leap Forward
2. Library of Congress: The Great Leap Forward
3. University of Maryland: The Great Leap Forward
4. Asia Times: "The Great Leap Forward Not All Bad" (2004) 
5. BBC News: Inside China's Ruling Party: Great Leap Forward
6. University of Chicago Chronicle: "China's Great Leap Forward" (1996)
7. Mount Holyoke College: "Political Economy of the Great Leap Forward" (1998)

The Great Leap Forward Background and Causes

Collectivization

• Wikipedia: Communist Collectivization
• Columbia University: The Commune System
• Open Society Archives: "Land Reform and Collectivization in China" (1958)
• University of Milwaukee: Khrushchev's Secret Speech 

Hundred Flowers Campaign

• Wikipedia: Hundred Flowers Campaign
• China History Forum: Hundred Flowers Campaign Discussion
• Virginia Tech: "An Early Spring: Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Intellectuals and the Hundred Flowers Campaign" (2004)

Anti-Rightest Movement

• Wikipedia: Anti-Rightest Movement
• Republican China: Anti-Rightest Movement 
• Economist: "Ghosts of Purges Past" (2007)

Three Years of Natural Disasters

• Wikipedia: The Great Chinese Famine
• Overpopulation.com: Chinese Famine of 1958-1961
• British Medical Journal: "China's Great Famine: 40 Years Later" (1999)
• Royal Economic Society: What Caused the Great Chinese Famine? 

The Great Leap Forward Central Figures

Mao Zedong

• Mahalo's Guide to Mao Zedong
• Monthly Review: "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?" (2006) 
• Time 100: "Mao Zedong" (1998) 
• Wikipedia: Mao Zedong

Deng Xiaoping

• Wikipedia: Deng Xiaoping
• People's Daily: Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
• CNN Visions of China: China's Former 'First Family' 
• New York Times: "Deng Xiaoping: A Political Wizard Who Put China on the Capitalist Road" (1997)

Lin Biao

• Wikipedia: Lin Biao
• Fordham University: "The Nature of People's War" (1965)
• Marxists Internet Archive: Lin Biao Reference Archive
• CNN Visions of China: A Hero of the Revolution Falls Hard

The Great Leap Forward Images and Media

• Wikipedia: Steel Production and Great Leap Forward Propaganda Posters
• International Institute of Social History: Great Leap Forward Propaganda Posters 
• CBC Archives: Scenes from the Great Leap Forward (Time 7:52)
• YouTube: China Great Leap Forward (Time 4:43)
• Google Image Search: The Great Leap Forward

The Great Leap Forward Books and Research

• Google Books: Chinese Village, Socialist State
• Guardian Unlimited: "Great leap forward" (2005)
• University of California at San Diego: "Calamity and Reform in China..." (1995)

The Great Leap Forward Blogs and Message Boards

• China History Forum: The Great Leap Forward
• MTV News: Talib Kweli Finds the China Beyond Lead Toys, Great Walls
• Oliver Kamm: Famine? What Famine? 

The Great Leap Forward Timeline

• 1949-1958: Collectivization begins with a series of reforms known as the "The Little Leap Forward"
• 1956: February 25, Nikita Khrushchev gives his Secret Speech criticizing, Soviet collectivization
• 1957: Mao Zedong attempts to ease party tensions with the Hundred Flowers Campaign
• 1957: Opposition to Mao's policy is purged during the Anti-Rightist Movement
• 1958: January, Mao Zedong unveils his agenda for the "Second Five-Year Plan" in Nanning
• 1958: April, People's Communes modeled after the USSR's "Third Period", are formed in Henan
• 1958: August, A Politburo meeting decides to double steel production in the next year
• 1958: September, The backyard furnace is introduced and recommended by Mao Zedong
• 1959: Steel production in large Manchurian factories is found to be more efficient
• 1959: At the Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai voices the concern of many about Mao's policies
• 1958-1961: The Great Chinese Famine, a direct result of the Great Leap Forward, plagues the country

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