HISC57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict, Jiang Qing, Cuban Missile Crisis
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50 years of dissarry b/w goumindong and communists who have been chasing e/o all over. Famine, natural disasters, diff. getting stuff to people; a lot of polit. distrust. Mao"s first few years focused on consolidating people"s faith in his leadership. China"s own plan tried to target sheet metal, coal prod. , and steel prod. ; each factory had target goal prod. "s like russian/stalin plan. 1952-1957 indust. prod. increased 130%; things initially went well espec. in areas where. Soviets were positioned (although this changes later on) 2nd 5 year plan (1958): the great leap forward (wanted by 1988 for china to match the us in econ. ) ; agric. needs industry to get tools for modernization etc. b/ your indust. workers need food. Thus communes of varying size (dep. on geo. space and pop. size; typ. Joining the party was a prestigious thing but not ev/one could join.
