'The Great Famine was mainly
caused by deficiencies in planning
and target setting' How far do you
agree with this statement?
Files & media
intro:
mainly caused: planning and target setting was the primary reason why the GF occurred
other themes = Mao and natural disasters
impact of other themes makes it only accurate to a minor extent to say that The Great
Famine was mainly caused by deficiencies in planning and target setting
main body
1) deficiencies in planning and target setting
feb 1958, responsibility for economic planning had been moved from the state to the Party
steel target for 1958 raised from 6 to 8mn tonnes at the Party Congress in May and then
again 10.7 mn tonnes in Sept.
once it was clear that these targets wouldn't be met —> order was given for backyard
steel furnace campaign
backyard furnace campaign
detriment of producing food
necessary to close schools and reply peasant shock brigades
grain output dropped from 200mn tonnes in 1958 to 147.5 mn tonnes in 1961
depleted all possible sources of metal like vital cooking utensils and woks
wood from furniture, doors and roofs burned to keep the furnaces hot
steel was of extremely poor quality and useless
communes = disaster + failure
announcement of total agricultural production for 1958 of 375mn tonnes had to be
revised down to 215mn tonnes
Khrushchev recalled Russian economic and scientific advisors from China in 1960
'The Great Famine was mainly caused by deficiencies in planning and target setting' How far do you agree with this 1
statement?
caused by deficiencies in planning
and target setting' How far do you
agree with this statement?
Files & media
intro:
mainly caused: planning and target setting was the primary reason why the GF occurred
other themes = Mao and natural disasters
impact of other themes makes it only accurate to a minor extent to say that The Great
Famine was mainly caused by deficiencies in planning and target setting
main body
1) deficiencies in planning and target setting
feb 1958, responsibility for economic planning had been moved from the state to the Party
steel target for 1958 raised from 6 to 8mn tonnes at the Party Congress in May and then
again 10.7 mn tonnes in Sept.
once it was clear that these targets wouldn't be met —> order was given for backyard
steel furnace campaign
backyard furnace campaign
detriment of producing food
necessary to close schools and reply peasant shock brigades
grain output dropped from 200mn tonnes in 1958 to 147.5 mn tonnes in 1961
depleted all possible sources of metal like vital cooking utensils and woks
wood from furniture, doors and roofs burned to keep the furnaces hot
steel was of extremely poor quality and useless
communes = disaster + failure
announcement of total agricultural production for 1958 of 375mn tonnes had to be
revised down to 215mn tonnes
Khrushchev recalled Russian economic and scientific advisors from China in 1960
'The Great Famine was mainly caused by deficiencies in planning and target setting' How far do you agree with this 1
statement?
