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The Great Chinese Famine ... Mao's Secret Famine, wrote that most estimates of the famine death toll range from 30 to 60 million. [32] [33] 43 Frank Dikötter ...
The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million. Drought. Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi.
9.5 to 13 million [9] Northern Chinese Famine of 1901. 1901. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia. The drought from 1898-1901 led to a fear of famine, which was a leading cause of Boxer Rebellion. The famine eventually came in Spring 1901. [10] 0.2 million in Shanxi, the worst hit province. Chinese famine of 1906–1907.
China: 927–928: Famine caused by four months of frost [13] [14] Byzantine Empire: 942–944 Famine in the Yellow River Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining population starved to death. [15] China: 963–968: Famine: Egypt: 996–997
978-0-8027-7768-3 (hardcover, United States) Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in ...
So many atrocities throughout history; Mao’s Great Chinese Famine probably took the most lives in recorded history: ... Socialism/communism death toll of about 94 million people.
Most frequently, the states and events which are studied and included in death toll estimates are the Holodomor and the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, the Great Chinese Famine and the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, and the Cambodian genocide in Democratic Kampuchea (now Cambodia). Estimates of individuals killed range ...
If approximately 23 million people out of a total population of 650 million people died during the Great Chinese Famine, the percentage would be 3.5%. [4] Hence, the famine during the Great Leap Forward had the highest absolute death toll, though not the highest relative (percentage) one.