Unfortunately the Great Leap Forward (GLF) was a huge disaster and this essay will explain and evaluate the positives and negatives of the GLF and Mao's uneducated decisions. ... John King Fairbank, the US expert on modern China remarked a contradiction on the collectivisation: 'the revolutionary state, having established its legitimacy by freeing the peasants from landlordism The state had become the ultimate landlord.' ...

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