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Draws upon historical documents to describe the scale, effect and outcome of the massive famine in China, between 1959 and 1961, which resulted from Chairman Mao's "Great Leap Forward" policy. It also suggests that self-interest among the current elite has.
The power of Frank Dikotter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forward' lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It ste…
Famine in European history
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Type: Book