Day 32 – Q 1.What were the results of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution? Analyse.
1. What were the results of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution? Analyse.
माओ ज़ेडोंग के ग्रेट लीप फॉरवर्ड तथा सांस्कृतिक क्रांति के नतीजे क्या थे? विश्लेषण करें।
Synopsis:
How successful was the great leap forward in achieving Mao’s aims and its results?
Only months after Mao Zelong launched the great leap forward, things started to go wrong. Everywhere, party workers urged people to produce more and to produce it faster. As a result, old and overworked machines fell apart under the strain.
- Introduction of collective farming and as a unit of local governance.
- Decentralisation of economic goods, they have started producing goods, farm produce in large scale to get everyone in the society as a commune, they started producing in the home level.
- Factory workers fell asleep at their benches and suffered accidents through careless brought on by exhaustion. It wasn’t only the factories that the Great Leap forward failed to take off.
- The backyard steel campaign also failed. Three million of the eleven million tonnes of steel made in backyard furnaces were too impure for industrial use and had to be thrown away as scrap.
- But worse was to come, so many furnaces were built that, eventually, one person in ten was employed in making steel. This took people away from the fields, reducing the amount of food that could be grown. The furnaces also used so much of the country’s coal supplies that railway locomotives had no fuel to run.
Resulted in on all round disruption of the economy, like the steel [produced by the population is not useful for the industry which led to the bank corrupt by 1976, and large scale famines, which was resulted in the malnourishment and premature deaths of 40 million people has taken place.
Cultural Revolution:
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China. The Cultural Revolution continued in various phases until Mao’s death in 1976, and its tormented and violent legacy would resonate in Chinese politics and society for decades to come.
Effects of Cultural Revolution:
- Wide spread indoctrination of young people to convince themselves and others that agriculture is more important than the industrial development.
- There is fear in the teachers, doctors, lawyers and intellectuals at large as they don’t know their fate after that.
- There is rift developed between Chinese society, where one side agriculturist and other side young population.
Conclusion:
Both these events are land mark events in the Chinese history and although it has harmed and devastated the Chinese society in short term, but in the long term it provided impetus for the economic development of the Chinese society. And although the moderates did not allow him a say in running the economy, he continued to have great influence over the masses of the people. He used this influence in 1966 to rid of the moderates by starting a new political revolution that would soon be known throughout the world as the Cultural Revolution. So Mao Zelong’s great plans for china had failed, he was not head of state anymore but the people’s liberation army of four million men supported him, all the ranks had been abolished so the soldiers were equal.
Best Answer: John Nash
