The Great Leap Forward is now widely seen as a major economic and humanitarian disaster, with estimates of the number of people killed by famine during this period ranging from a minimum of 14 million to as many as 43 million.

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Ashlee Carroll

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21 January, 09:14

The Great Leap Forward is now widely seen as a major economic and humanitarian disaster, with estimates of the number of people killed by famine during this period ranging from a minimum of 14 million to as many as 43 million.

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Whitney Ponce · Answer 1

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While the death count estimates vary widely, as seen in the question, historians, even in the People's Republic of China, agree that the Great Leap Forward as a major disaster.

In fact, some of the leadership in China have used the Great Leap Forward as an example to undermine the figure of Mao Zedong.

The main problem of the Great Leap Forward was that the agricultural collectivization did not bring the expected results. The collective farms failed to produce enough food, and famines soon spread throughout the country.