📖 Mao's Great Famine. The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962

Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It...