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The Great Leap Forward Is Well Known For The Failed Economic And Social Campaign

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The Great Leap Forward is well-known for the failed economic and social campaign started by the Communist Party of China in between 1958 to 1961. The Communist triumph in China by mobilization of peasants and civilians to fend off Japanese military during World War II and the Nationalist soldiers in the civil war between 1946 and 1949. After the success of using the man power throughout the mobilization, the Party believed that they could apply the same method for the economic development. Before the Communist Party took over the country in 1949, China was in under poor agriculture based economy with its infancy level of industrialization which makes China remaining in less developed country. The majority of the population in the rural area lived upon the labor-intensive farming. In order to alleviate regarding issue, Mao assured that the central government need to induce the nation to focus on “the transition from socialism to communism” for the entire country (Mesiner, 1977, p. 227). The socialist state of the nation was yet to be consolidated in the beginning of 1958. The reorganization of the country from socialism to communism portrayed as idealistic idea under impoverished state. Nevertheless, the Party considered this immature state of socialist society as an opportunity to improve the nation as whole. In 1958, the new Chinese Communist Party initiated the Great Leap Forward movement which implementing the collectivization by merging small group of local farmers into

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