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Paperback Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward Book

ISBN: 0521032334

ISBN13: 9780521032339

Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward

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In this book David Bachman examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward (GLF), a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China, estimated to have caused the death of between 14 and 28 million Chinese. While standard accounts interpret the GLF as chiefly the brainchild of Mao Zedong and as a radical rejection of a set of more moderate reform proposals put forward in the period 1956 to 1957, Bachman...

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