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History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
The Industrial Revolution in China
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The Great Leap Forward was China's attempt to create an industrial revolution in the countryside. Farmers would construct millions of backyard furnaces and then divide their time between tending crops and smelting steel. They were going to make steel at home that could then be sold on the market to support the Chinese state. "Gabby, of course, it's going to work. Please stop"
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