There was no recovery until 1962, after the Great Leap Forward ended.

The Great Leap Forward quickly revealed itself as a giant step backwards.

However, the economy of China continued to fall after the end of the Great Leap Forward.

He was right, though China failed disastrously to execute his Great Leap Forward in the late 50's.

In the past decade, China's legal system, largely shut down during the Cultural Revolution, has experienced a Great Leap Forward.

Tibetan exiles generally say that the number that have died in the Great Leap Forward, violence, or other unnatural causes since 1950 is approximately 1.2 million.

During the Great Leap Forward, Fengyang County, along with much of the rest of the country, experienced a period of famine.

During the Great Leap Forward, when traditional veneration of the baiji was denounced, it was hunted for its flesh and skin, and quickly became scarce.

For those thinking historically, there's a good chance the word famine calls up episodes like the one that took place during China's Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1961.

In the 1958, "Great Leap Forward" campaign initiated by Mao Zedong, land use was placed under closer government control in an effort to improve agricultural output.

Construction of the new Central Campus commenced in 1959, during the Great Leap Forward and in the year of a great Yellow River flood.

To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, Mao Zedong instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had decidedly mixed economic results.

In 1958, at Beidaihe, Chinese leaders laid plans for the disastrous Great Leap Forward, in which government-mandated communal farming led to food shortages that cost millions of lives.

The Black Book of Communism also details the mass starvations resulting from Great Leap Forward in China, and the Killing Fields in Cambodia.

Under the leadership of Minister of National Defense Lin Biao, large investments were made in naval construction during the frugal years immediately after the Great Leap Forward.

The Great Leap Forward (1958-60) saw great growth of primitive backyard furnaces producing poor-quality pig iron, numerous new, small, modern plants, overuse of large plants, and exaggerated production reports.

The collection spans the pivotal period from the Chinese civil war and the consolidation of the Communist regime through the upheavals of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.

Baum, Richard D. "'Red and Expert': The Politico-Ideological Foundations of China's Great Leap Forward," Asian Survey, Vol.

Mao's theories on mass collectivization became the basis of the Great Leap Forward, a national economic plan that began in 1958 which caused a man-made famine across the country that lasted for several years.

Zhou has been described by at least one historian as the "midwife" of the Great Leap Forward, turning Mao's theory into reality and in the process causing a "minimum of 45 million" deaths.

In more politically radical periods - such as the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) - efforts were made to expand the ranks of scientists and technicians by sharply reducing education and certification standards.

During 1961-74, the yearly growth rate fell to about 6%, partly as a result of the disruptions brought on by the collapse of the Great Leap Forward (which accompanied the withdrawal of Soviet technicians in mid-1960) and of work stoppages and transportation disruptions during the Cultural Revolution.

These tensions culminated in September 1959, when Mao Zedong replaced Minister of National Defense Peng Dehuai, the chief advocate of military modernization, with Lin Biao, who deemphasized military professionalism in favor of revolutionary purity (see Great Leap Forward 1958-60).

Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.