Activity 1 - How was the GLF ended?

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Activity Tasks

1. Read - Examine and make notes from Slides 3-6 of the Lesson Presentation about how the GLF was ended. 
2. Source Analysis - Examine Source A on this worksheet. To what extent does this source show that Mao was making a genuine admission of error and responsibility for his part in the Great Leap Forward?
3. Explain - How did Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun bring about recovery from the GLF?
4. Source Analysis - Examine the table showing production figures from 1956-1965 on this worksheet then answer these questions:
   1. To what extent had agricultural production improved by 1965?
   2. To what extent did industry recover after the Great Leap Forward?
   3. Which sectors of the economy show the greatest improvement? How do you account for this?
      
5. Discuss - What evidence suggests that the post-GLF economic policies were successful?

Activity 2 - Why did splits emerge?

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Activity Tasks

1. Read - Explore and make notes from Slide 7 of the Lesson Presentation about splits within the CPC.
2. Source Analysis - Examine Source C on this worksheet. When Mao spoke of ‘tigers’ at the 7,000 Cadres’ Conference, which attitudes and practices was he referring to?
   1. Now study Sources D and E. What can we learn from these sources about Mao’s priorities in the aftermath of the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
3. Explain - Why was Mao increasing uneasy with the policies and nature of the CPC in the early 1960s? What crisis was facing the new society?
   
4. Research - Complete the table on this worksheet by summarising the main ideological differences between the moderate State Economic Planners (Chen Yun, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping) and Mao and his radical power base.

Activity 3 - What finally triggered divisions?

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Activity Tasks

1. Read - Read and make notes from Slides 8-10 of the Lesson Presentation about the Socialist Education Movement.
2. Explain - What were the aims of the Socialist Education Movement and why did it fail?
3. Discuss - To what extent had Maoist revolutionary ideas been compromised by the early 1960s?
4. Further - Take notes from Chang, J., & Halliday, J. (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story, pp. 470-479​

Further Reading

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OBLIGATORY READING

1. Lynch, M. (2016). Access to History: China 1839-1997, pp. 188-191

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Chang, J., & Halliday, J. (2005). Mao: The Unknown Story, pp. 470-479

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

1. Fairbank, J.K., & Goldman, M. (2006). China - A New History, pp. 380-385

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