In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster
... against his Chinese compatriots in his unsuccessful effort 
to launch China into a... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Leap Forward Period in China, 1958-1960 [PAR] Mao was also aware that when Stalin began his five-year plans he ... perhaps he 
was not, that the collectivization program in the Soviet Union was a great failure 
in ....