Communal living was more harmful than beneficial to peasants 1949 - 1962
- Effects on women - social benefits - healthcare - family life
Women - Yes Women - No
- Communes 1958 = ‘liberation - Subject to rape - ghanghzhou -
through labour’ - able to do jobs forced to work naked
- In henan - 2 officials raped 34
women
- 1 commune - pregnant women
refusing to work forced to work
naked in winter
- Points system - max points earned =
8 and famine = men given more
food
- ‘Triple shift’
Healthcare benefits Healthcare - lack of
- During Great Leap Forward, - Poor hygiene in kindergartens -
communes established medical diarrhoea, measles and chicken pox
clinics common
- Barefoot Doctors for rural villages - Famine 1958 - 30m died
with 6 months basic training - Resorted to cannibalism and poor
diets
- Less food due to 1958 4 pests
campaign = food rot
Family life yes Family life no
- MATs 1951 - 10 households pooled - Agrarian land reform 1950 - land
resources - mostly close family ownership based on family ties =
members - quite popular - (40% issue for landlords
joined 1952) - Higher APCs - 1955: 200-300
- households = disruption and less
popular (only 14% joined at start)
- Happiness homes 1958 - disrupt
family life as grandparents alienation
, How far do you agree that the successes of Mao’s agricultural policies outweighed the
failures?
- Economic increase - effects on lives of peasants - ideological pros
Economic Pros Economic Cons
- 1950 Agrarian Land Reform = - APCs only led to increase in
15%pa increase in agricultural production by 3.8% by 1956
production - 4 pests campaign = harmful
- Irrigation Schemes helpful to - Lysenkoism - incorrect info = less
increase fertile land for increased growth
production by 1958
Lives of Peasants - Yes Lives of peasants - no
- Agrarian land reform popular - 88% - Poor diet due to 1958 famine -
households joined cannibalism
- MATs 1951 - 10 families - who you - Backyard furnaces - hindrance to
know = people like it everyday life
- Communal living - happiness - Higher APCs less popular - 14%
homes? joined by 1955 - became enforced
- Poor diet in communes - family life
also destroyed by nature of it
Ideology - yes Ideology - no
- Agrarian Land reform = 1-m - In south, APCs only introduced later
landlords executed on due to North/South divide
- MATs and APCs - pooled resources - Same said about Agrarian Land
like tools and animals Reform in South
- Communal living - ideology in line - Peng Dehuai voiced doubts about
- Enforced collectivisation 1956 grain harvests as a result of walking
solves issue - everyone involved on 2 legs in 1959
(1956 end - 88% involved with it)
- Peng Dehuai stripped of positions
- Effects on women - social benefits - healthcare - family life
Women - Yes Women - No
- Communes 1958 = ‘liberation - Subject to rape - ghanghzhou -
through labour’ - able to do jobs forced to work naked
- In henan - 2 officials raped 34
women
- 1 commune - pregnant women
refusing to work forced to work
naked in winter
- Points system - max points earned =
8 and famine = men given more
food
- ‘Triple shift’
Healthcare benefits Healthcare - lack of
- During Great Leap Forward, - Poor hygiene in kindergartens -
communes established medical diarrhoea, measles and chicken pox
clinics common
- Barefoot Doctors for rural villages - Famine 1958 - 30m died
with 6 months basic training - Resorted to cannibalism and poor
diets
- Less food due to 1958 4 pests
campaign = food rot
Family life yes Family life no
- MATs 1951 - 10 households pooled - Agrarian land reform 1950 - land
resources - mostly close family ownership based on family ties =
members - quite popular - (40% issue for landlords
joined 1952) - Higher APCs - 1955: 200-300
- households = disruption and less
popular (only 14% joined at start)
- Happiness homes 1958 - disrupt
family life as grandparents alienation
, How far do you agree that the successes of Mao’s agricultural policies outweighed the
failures?
- Economic increase - effects on lives of peasants - ideological pros
Economic Pros Economic Cons
- 1950 Agrarian Land Reform = - APCs only led to increase in
15%pa increase in agricultural production by 3.8% by 1956
production - 4 pests campaign = harmful
- Irrigation Schemes helpful to - Lysenkoism - incorrect info = less
increase fertile land for increased growth
production by 1958
Lives of Peasants - Yes Lives of peasants - no
- Agrarian land reform popular - 88% - Poor diet due to 1958 famine -
households joined cannibalism
- MATs 1951 - 10 families - who you - Backyard furnaces - hindrance to
know = people like it everyday life
- Communal living - happiness - Higher APCs less popular - 14%
homes? joined by 1955 - became enforced
- Poor diet in communes - family life
also destroyed by nature of it
Ideology - yes Ideology - no
- Agrarian Land reform = 1-m - In south, APCs only introduced later
landlords executed on due to North/South divide
- MATs and APCs - pooled resources - Same said about Agrarian Land
like tools and animals Reform in South
- Communal living - ideology in line - Peng Dehuai voiced doubts about
- Enforced collectivisation 1956 grain harvests as a result of walking
solves issue - everyone involved on 2 legs in 1959
(1956 end - 88% involved with it)
- Peng Dehuai stripped of positions
