Great Leap Forward.
The Great Leap Forward (1958–1960), the worst disaster of the Maoist era, was a utopian attempt to achieve the economic goals of catching up with advanced capitalist countries overnight without creating a new elite class of experts, which would be contrary to the goal of socialism. The Great Leap Forward also represented a final break with the Soviet Union and a departure from the Stalinist model of industrial development.... ...
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