"The Great Leap Forward" Mao Zedong Famine (jan 6, 1958 – jan 6, 1961)
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economic campaign that led to famine and millions of deaths. merge industrialization and collectivization→ ordered farmers throughout China to abandon crops and produce steel
Produced a famine between 1958-1961 killing 30+ million ppl (6x as many as Stalin had taken with his campaign to collectivize agriculture)
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