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    The document provides a timeline of key events in China from 1949 to 1958 leading up to the Great Leap Forward. It outlines China's establishment as a communist state under Mao Zedong, the implementation of land reforms and collectivization of agriculture, the prioritization of heavy industry under the first Five Year Plan modeled after the Soviet Union, and increasing collectivization of rural areas into agricultural cooperatives and communes culminating in Mao's announcement of the Great Leap Forward in 1958.

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    The document provides a timeline of key events in China from 1949 to 1958 leading up to the Great Leap Forward. It outlines China's establishment as a communist state under Mao Zedong, the implementation of land reforms and collectivization of agriculture, the prioritization of heavy industry under the first Five Year Plan modeled after the Soviet Union, and increasing collectivization of rural areas into agricultural cooperatives and communes culminating in Mao's announcement of the Great Leap Forward in 1958.

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    The document provides a timeline of key events in China from 1949 to 1958 leading up to the Great Leap Forward. It outlines China's establishment as a communist state under Mao Zedong, the implementation of land reforms and collectivization of agriculture, the prioritization of heavy industry under the first Five Year Plan modeled after the Soviet Union, and increasing collectivization of rural areas into agricultural cooperatives and communes culminating in Mao's announcement of the Great Leap Forward in 1958.

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    The Great Leap Forward Context Timeline

    Directions: This timeline serves as the foundation for our discussion about the lead
    up to the Great Leap Forward. During the discussion, use this as a reference tool to
    answer any questions that are asked, and highlight and annotate key points that are
    mentioned. This timeline will also help you develop understanding of the context
    surrounding the Great Leap Forward.

    Year Key Events


    1949  Chinese Communist Party is victorious in Chinese Civil War.
     People’s Republic of China is established on Oct. 1.

    1950  The Sino-Soviet Pact is signed, as China allies itself with the
    Soviet Union.
     China joins the Korean War.
     Agrarian Reform Law of 1950: The property of rural landlords
    and industrialists is confiscated and redistributed.
     Laws are passed to win the favor of the population, such as the
    marriage law, which allows for freedom of marriage and
    divorce.

    1952  Initial land reform completed, land deeds destroyed, and land
    redistributed.
     Approximately 2 million landlords killed in this process.
    1953  First Five Year Plan begins, signaling the start of rapid
    industrialization.
    o Modeled on the Soviet Union’s Five Year Plan. Soviet
    aid and advice provided.
    o Based on Stalinist economics, with investment in heavy
    industry, ignoring agriculture.
     Rural collectivization is stepped up. Small collectives were
    created, called “lower-level agricultural producers’
    cooperatives,” made up of 20-30 households.

    1954  Rural collectivization continues to accelerate.

    1955  Mao calls for additional acceleration in the creation of


    agricultural cooperatives in rural areas.
    o Damaging to middle-class peasants, as the title to the
    land was given to the cooperative itself, thus granting
    more status to landless peasants and taking power from
    middle-class peasants.
     Agricultural surpluses were increasingly extracted to pay for
    industrialization. Measures for enforcing these extractions
    include grain rationing, purchase quotas, wage regulations.
    1956  Agricultural collectivization in China was equal to the Soviet
    Union. The average peasant owned his house, some domestic
    animals, a garden, and his personal savings.
     7/8 of China’s peasant households were in cooperatives.
     Sino-Soviet relations become strained as Khrushchev embraces
    de-Stalinization.
    1957  The policy of increasing agricultural production by
    reorganizing into cooperatives, with little monetary investment,
    proved to be inadequate for actually increasing agricultural
    production.
     Mao travels to Moscow and tells Communist officials that the
    “East wind prevails over the West wind.”
     The First Five-Year Plan is generally considered a success, as
    industrial output more than doubled, and the rural countryside
    was reorganized into collectivized cooperatives.
    1958  Mao announces the Great Leap Forward, China’s second Five
    Year Plan, with an ultimate goal of overtaking the UK in steel
    production in 15 years.
     Small cooperatives are organized into large-scale rural
    communes, wherein all aspects of economic, political, and
    social life in rural areas were collectivized.
    o By the end of 1958, ~26,000 communes had been
    established.
    o Each commune had an average 5,000 households.
     By the end of 1958, steel, coal, and industrial output had
    increased, and grain production had increased.

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