what was the result of the attempt to have peasants make steel on their communes during the great leap forward

The results were very poor, and only a minority of peasants were able to make steel of good quality.

Explanation:

There were several reasons for this. The first is that the furnaces installed in peasants' homes were often of poor quality, or too small to produce steel in high amounts, and of high quality.

A second reason is that most of the peasants did not have experience in metallurgy, and their lack of technique contributed to the poor quality of the steel.

A final reason is that the peasants often used other materials such as wood, and even their pots and pans, to make more steel and meet the quotas, and the poor ingredients resulted in low quality steel.