The Great Leap Forward in China's Socialist Development

As many as 36 million people, mostly chinese peasants in the rural areas, starved to death or killed. The lesson all party members arned from this hundred flowers and anti ritis campaigns was keep your mouth shut. After krues secret speech of february 19 56, ma's distrust of the soviet leadership fell off the end of the table. And then not long after a train wreck of a meeting between kruhe and ma in november 19 57, he unilaterally broke ties with china.