Great Leap Forward (English, name)
expansion: the Great Leap Forward
Senses:
glosses: A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).
tags: historical
glosses: A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.
Forms:
form: the Great Leap Forward
tags: canonical