How much did Mao's policies have to do with this? How much of it was chocked up to natural disaster? Any resources to read about it?
How much did Mao's policies have to do with this? How much of it was chocked up to natural disaster? Any resources to read about it?
Here's an old article on it:
The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/430804
Tldr is the movement of resources from agriculture to industry was extremely likely the cause of at least a third of the grain production reduction.