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China Under Communism: Key Historical Events by Allison is a document available to read on EtoBox.

After the Communist Party gained control of China in 1949, they implemented various economic and social programs with mixed results. Mao Zedong launched the disastrous Great Leap Forward in 1958 in an attempt to rapidly industrialize China, resulting in a famine where as many as 15 million people died. In 1966, Mao unleashed the Red Guards during the violent Cultural Revolution, closing schools and attacking intellectuals, artists, and other targets until his death in 1976. Afterwards, Deng Xiaoping institu

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Allison

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