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- Collectivisation
- Complement to industrialisation. Peasants had been encouraged to collectivise in 1949.
- Causes
- Lack of labour
- Increase in production
- Nature
- Division of China
- China's land divided into 70,000 communes.
- Each commune divided into 750,000 brigades
- Each brigade made up of 200 households.
- Centralisation
- Methods, Sales and Prices dictated by CCP.
- Presentation
- Presented as response to the peasant's wishes
- Had the state become the ultimate landlord?
- Effects
- Famine
- No incentives
- Use of Lysenkoism
- Made official policy in 1958
- Universally enforced, even where unsuitable
- All Chinese made to kill sparrows
- Make noise
- Sparrows die
- Pests population grows exponentially
- Eats crops
- Rats Multiply
- 20% Population of Tibet Wiped out
- Exports Increased
- Party officials reported that in fact production had increased, so exports followed suit.
- Motivation
- Crassness?
- Enforce Control?
- Industry
- Backyard furnaces
- Idea that mass labour could result in mass production
- Primitive inefficient, poor quality furnaces and inputs used.
- Good will did not produce steel.
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