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How not to rapidly rework an economy: radical policies in Mao’s China and Stalin’s USSR created mass famines
Recently, I read “Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine,” a study by Jasper Becker of China’s Great Leap Forward and the resulting famine of 1958-62. Long banned in China, the book retells a famine that for at least 20 years, “no one was sure whether it had …
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The South Dakota Standard
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