Great Leap Forward Famine
How did the Great Leap Forward turn into mass starvation?
4.4 (11)
76 mins
Discover how, in 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward to transform China into a superpower. Explore how the tens of millions perish as truth is buried beneath propaganda.
Ep 1:
Forty-Five Million Silences
An introduction to history's deadliest hidden catastrophe: Mao's rise, his fraught alliance with Stalin, and the seeds of a famine the Party still refuses to name.
Ep 2:
The Trap and the Leap
Mao springs a devastating trap on China's intellectuals, then races Khrushchev's boasts into a reckless global gamble—launching the Great Leap Forward and its deadly communes.
Discussions (4)
Allen
Level 4 · 5 mo agoMelting farm tools to make useless steel is actually such a bad strategy!! The famine was inevitable
Milo
Level 4 · 5 mo agoDon't cull keystone taxa
Anthony
Level 9 · 5 mo agoThat steel was crap. Just useless pig iron slop.
