AGRICULTURE Flashcards
What were maos agricultural policies in China?
Communal living
Abolishment of private farming
What were the effects of Communal living?
Villagers stayed in same houses worked alongside same people, communal identity
Communal canteens and dorms
Management teams
Unit of local gov set to proved education, public health, policing mitary and childcare
People encouraged to abandon bourgeois emotional attachments for the communal good lifestyle
What were the effects of the abolition of private farming?
Surrender all private property, private farming was abolished
No longer motivation to work unless you were inspired by communal gain
Loss of personal freedom
Teams worked longer without breaks
What were the effects of the great famine? why was it so bad?
30m deaths, highest estimate 60m
Famine serious in rural areas
Tibet- 25% of it’s 4m population wiped out
Some peasants ate tree bark and plants to survive, husbands sold wives and parents sold children for food
Prostitution and cannibalism
What caused the great famine?
Mao trying to develop communes launch 2nd5YP and mobilise masses to work on Engineering projects
Was relying on farmers but they could only support themselves and their families
Few technical experts to give advice as Mao purged them
Cadres didn’t dare speak out
Industrialising China was more important, lives didn’t matter
