Great Leap Forward policies

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economic policy campaign political campaign social policy campaign

The Great Leap Forward policies were a series of radical economic and social campaigns launched by Mao Zedong in late 1950s China, aimed at rapidly transforming the country from an agrarian society into a communist industrial powerhouse, but which resulted in widespread famine and millions of deaths.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Great Leap Forward	7
Great Leap Forward construction campaign	1
Great Leap Forward policies canonical	1

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Target entity: Great Leap Forward policies
Context triple: [Peng Dehuai, opposed, Great Leap Forward policies]

A. The General Line
The General Line is a 1929 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that depicts the collectivization of agriculture and the transformation of peasant life in the early Soviet Union.
B. Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a Soviet-era labor campaign that glorified and incentivized exceptionally high worker productivity as a model for socialist industrialization.
C. Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was a decade-long sociopolitical movement in China (1966–1976) launched by Mao Zedong to reassert his control, enforce ideological purity, and reshape Chinese society through mass mobilization and widespread persecution.
D. New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy was a 1920s Soviet economic strategy that temporarily reintroduced limited market mechanisms and private trade to revive the post–civil war economy before the shift to full central planning.
E. Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union
The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of centralized, state-directed economic programs that rapidly industrialized the USSR and transformed its agrarian economy under communist rule.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Great Leap Forward policies
Target entity description: The Great Leap Forward policies were a series of radical economic and social campaigns launched by Mao Zedong in late 1950s China, aimed at rapidly transforming the country from an agrarian society into a communist industrial powerhouse, but which resulted in widespread famine and millions of deaths.

A. The General Line
The General Line is a 1929 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that depicts the collectivization of agriculture and the transformation of peasant life in the early Soviet Union.
B. Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a Soviet-era labor campaign that glorified and incentivized exceptionally high worker productivity as a model for socialist industrialization.
C. Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution was a decade-long sociopolitical movement in China (1966–1976) launched by Mao Zedong to reassert his control, enforce ideological purity, and reshape Chinese society through mass mobilization and widespread persecution.
D. New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy was a 1920s Soviet economic strategy that temporarily reintroduced limited market mechanisms and private trade to revive the post–civil war economy before the shift to full central planning.
E. Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union
The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of centralized, state-directed economic programs that rapidly industrialized the USSR and transformed its agrarian economy under communist rule.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	economic policy campaign ⓘ political campaign ⓘ social policy campaign ⓘ
associatedWith	Deng Xiaoping ⓘ Liu Shaoqi ⓘ Zhou Enlai ⓘ
component	backyard furnaces ⓘ collective labor mobilization ⓘ communal dining halls ⓘ people's communes ⓘ
consequence	Great Chinese Famine ⓘ
country	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China
criticizedFor	coercive collectivization ⓘ disregard for human cost ⓘ suppression of accurate reporting ⓘ unrealistic production targets ⓘ
endDate	1962 ⓘ
estimatedDeaths	tens of millions ⓘ
followedBy	period of economic readjustment in early 1960s China ⓘ
goal	overtake Western industrial powers ⓘ rapid collectivization of agriculture ⓘ rapid industrialization ⓘ transformation from agrarian to industrial society ⓘ
historicalAssessment	major policy disaster ⓘ one of the deadliest famines in history ⓘ
ideology	Maoism ⓘ communism ⓘ
implementedBy	Chinese Communist Party ⓘ People's Republic of China government ⓘ
influencedBy	Soviet-style central planning ⓘ
leader	Mao Zedong ⓘ
location	China ⓘ surface form: Mainland China
opposedBy	some Chinese Communist Party leaders ⓘ
policyType	agricultural collectivization ⓘ central planning ⓘ forced industrialization ⓘ mass mobilization campaign ⓘ
precededBy	First Five-Year Plan of the People's Republic of China ⓘ
region	rural China ⓘ
result	decline in agricultural output ⓘ economic dislocation ⓘ industrial inefficiency ⓘ mass starvation ⓘ social disruption ⓘ widespread famine ⓘ
slogan	Great Leap Forward policies self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Great Leap Forward
startDate	1958 ⓘ
timePeriod	late 1950s ⓘ

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