The final stage of collectivization here would result in communes that were composed of over 5,000 households. More than 20 times larger than any of the previous cooperatives. These communes were supposed to be self sufficient in basically everything. It was a true utopia where agriculture, industry, government, education, health care, all of it was united into one big giant cooperative.
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Instead it would result in the death of millions.
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