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Why did Mao Zedong launch the Great Leap Forward in 1958?

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User Klijo
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it was an attempt to introduce a more 'Chinese' form of communism. that why he launched the great leap forward

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User Slartibartfast
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he wanted china to rapidly industrialize without following the soviet model

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