Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous ?
Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous Great Leap Forward. The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962. (CSU_ALPHA_1365) CSU Archives/Everett Collection
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Backyard Blast Chaotic Csu 2012 12 Csualpha Disastrous Encouraged Famines Forge Furnace Leap Metallurgy Occupational Peasants Quantities Results Smelters Uneconomic
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