Question

Which statements best explains what happened to Chinese workers during the Great Leap Forward? Check all that apply. Workers experienced pay raises as agricultural and industrial production rose. Workers were organized into large communes in cities and countrysides. Workers were forced to comply with rules through torture and abuse. Workers flourished because they could choose what they did for a living. Workers lived in dormitories and ate in dining rooms away from family. Workers bought homes and property because they were financially stable.

Answer 1

Which statements best explains what happened to Chinese workers during the Great Leap Forward? Check all that apply.  

The following are true:

Workers were organized into large communes in cities and countrysides. Workers were forced to comply with rules through torture and abuse. Workers lived in dormitories and ate in dining rooms away from family.

As we can see, "the Great Leap Forward" had a lot of promises that were not carried out in reality, as later it caused one of the greatest historical famines in China and againg causing the socialist world to gain international criticism as it later was found that it cause almost 56 millions dead as a result of this social engineering.

Answer 2

Which statements best explains what happened to Chinese workers during the Great Leap Forward? Check all that apply.  

a) Workers experienced pay raises as agricultural and industrial production rose.  

b) Workers were organized into large communes in cities and countrysides.  

c) Workers were forced to comply with rules through torture and abuse.  

d) Workers flourished because they could choose what they did for a living.  

e) Workers lived in dormitories and ate in dining rooms away from family.  

f) Workers bought homes and property because they were financially stable.

The correct answers are b) and c).

• Workers were organized into large communes in cities and countrysides. Most communes contained around 5.000 families, people in a commune abandoned their traditional sense of material belongings, everything was then owned by the commune. Schools, health care and elderly houses were provided by the commune so that workers only have to worry about the objectives of their commune.  

• Workers were forced to comply with rules through torture and abuse. In 1959 political decisions interfered with what communes were really capable of doing. When commune leaders reacted to the impossible tasks they were meant to do, party officials would threatened them to take them to jail.  A crucial aspect was that the harvest of 1960 was terrible and it was believed than more than 9 million people died starved to death, between 1959 and 1962 it is thought that 20 million people died of starvation.