China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59: Mao, Central Politicians and Provi
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This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0765602024
ISBN13:9780765602022
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:Routledge
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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