HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: February 28 Incident, Zhou Enlai, Planned Economy
14 Nov 2020
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Gmd missteps: inability to control runaway inflation, restore economic production, heavy-handed control dissidents, alienated local administrators -> hiring outsiders for government jobs, corrupt soldiers + bureaucrats, -> lost support, legitimacy, personnel. Early years of communist rule 1949-1958: parallel party and government structures, transition to command economy following soviet model. Five year plan (prc, 1952-1956: centralized economic decision- and policy-making, planners, not market demand, fixed output quotas, prices, wages. The great leap forward, 1958-1960: prc break from soviet bloc, communes replaced collectives. Everything done in communes (even eating meals: private production banned -> private land owning too, backyard industrial production encouraged, mao"s plans work (for a bit) Great famine 1959-1962 (20 million died: 1959 lushan conference: peng dehuai (minister of defense) sent private letter to. Mao confiding concerns -> mao led peng"s ouster: causes: Inflated output figures did not match reality severe grain shortages. Poor crop yield in central and south china.
