The reduction of life expectancy in the UK the during the industrial revolution has little do do with any of the above examples. In the Great Leap Forward, Mao was trying to compact 200 years of technological progress – from a agricultural feudal economy to a modern industrial one into five years, with really poor planning and no foresight which resulted in a terrible human price. Stalins’ purges were the result of political paranoia and a desire to tighten his grip on power ... Read even more
