The Great Leap Forward
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- Wikipedia: The Great Leap Forward
- Library of Congress: The Great Leap Forward
- University of Maryland: The Great Leap Forward
- Asia Times: "The Great Leap Forward Not All Bad" (2004)
- BBC News: Inside China's Ruling Party: Great Leap Forward
- University of Chicago Chronicle: "China's Great Leap Forward" (1996)
- 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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