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Between 1958 and 1962, as Mao Zedong drove China towards his Great Leap Forward, at least forty-five million people died - of starvation, overwork and violence. Drawing on newly opened Communist Party archives, Frank Dikötter tells the story of the catastrophe and the system that produced it.

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Mao’s Great Famine

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