Reasons for launching GLF Flashcards
(24 cards)
IMPROVING AGRI PROD:
Agri prod only increased by _% during the FYP.
Grain prod increaed _% while pop increased _%
3%
1%
2%
Why couldn’t they forcibly requisition grain from peasants as Stalin had
70% of CCP members came from rural backgrounds.
Who favoured the pragmatic approach
Chen Yun and Zhou Enlai
What was the pragmatic approach
To offer peasants material incentives to work harder - high prices and more access to consumer goods.
Who favoured the radical approach
Mao, Liu, and Deng
What was the radical approach
Propaganda to encourage peasants to work harder and mass mobilisation of peasant labour through communes
POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL INCENTIVES:
What did Zhou Enlai reduce from 18-14bn Yuan in 1956.
Proposed capital construction investment
Which other powerful Poliburo members supported Zhou
Which newspaper published an article criticising ‘rash advance’
Liu Shaoqi
People’s Daily
What did Zhou Enlai’s report on the 2nd FYP try to steer?
A mid-path
Who did Mao compare those who opposed the ‘rash advance’ to in his 1957 speech
The GMD and rightist Zhang-Luo alliance
What was the simple choice for the 2nd FYP according to Mao?
Capitalist road or socialist road
Who was responsibility for oversight of economic planning transferred to in 1958?
CCP
Who took over from technical experts?
Local party cadres
What did he believe the peasants were?
He believed they should lead through what?
Revolutionary class
Forming communes
He believed in the power of what to transform China’s economic situation?
Human will
What did he believe in the centrality of?
Continuous revolution
MAKING CHINA INDEPENDENT:
What was Mao very concerned about the USSR after?
K’s Secret Speech, 1956
In 1956, what did the new party constitution remove reference to as the guiding ideology of the party
Mao Zedong Thought
Which Khrushchev policy particularly concerned Mao?
Peaceful co-existence with West.
What did better relations with the USA undermine?
Socialist Solidarity.
What else would this make more difficult?
Regaining Taiwan
Mao became increasingly convinced that China would have to do what in its efforts to develop its economy and power
Stand alone
What was made their major policy from 1958?
‘Self-reliance’
Give an example of relations with the USSR breaking down
No Soviet citizens in China by Sept 1960
