Unit 7: Comparing Mao’s Great Leap Forward (China) & Stalin’s Five Year
Plans (USSR)
Overview: What was it & why Agriculture: What changes Industry: What changes Effects: What were the
was it implemented? were made? were made? outcomes? This includes
positive & negative outcomes.
Mao’s Great - The Government - Workers were Assigned - Completely controlled - Positive-
wanted to control the roles by government - Healthcare
Leap Forward Economy and this was - Less farming for the - Steel production with - Child support
(China) a way of doing that backyard steel making pheasants - Organization
Look through - Wanted to fix china's - There were bad - Poor quality materials - Negative
the above link economic situation and conditions for farming so - Death by steel - Didn’t help
living conditions less was being done making Economy all that
to help you fill - East feeling threatened - Communes to work land - Crowding in work much
in the graphic so they need defense better and more sites and bad living - Terrible farming
organizer. efficiently conditions ethic
- Not a good at farming - Food given as part of - Terrible quality
because new methods wage goods
- Less efficient crop work - Millions of people
because farmers going died
to steel sites and
inexperienced people
farm
Stalin’s 5 Year - Pheasants were moved - Nothing was privately - Positive
- Government needed to to State owned owned or personal - Insanely huge
Plans (USSR) fix the rough and collectives - Everything had been increase in
Look through crappy economy - Extremely unrealistic moved to Industrial work
the above link - They needed to catch expectations and famine Government/ group - Giant increase in
to help you fill up to the Western - New technology given to owned factories or Agricultural work
countries because they farmers from work Good and More
out the graphic were very behind in Government - Unrealistic materials
organizer. industrialization - Pheasants get some expectations and - Negative
- Collectivisation land poor work conditions - Protests
- More money and more - Most of the products - Main materials - Famine
modernization were taken increased by millions - Millions dead
in production - Pheasants forced
off land
- Labor camps
- Poor stayed poor