



Democracy and Class Struggle was one of the first to make comrades in the West in but is already in English awaiting publication. was one of the first to make comrades in the West in 2016 aware of the studies of Sun Jingxian on the Famine in late 1950's China and we translated and published some of Sun Jingxian's work - the main work of Sun Jingxian has not yet been published in the West -





The popular view that the number of unnatural deaths

in China during the Difficult Three Year Period (1959–1961)

amounted to

false

as shown by careful analy

sis.





Taking the average death toll from 1955 to 1957 as the base

number, and combining this with unreported deaths from 1953 to

1964 and subsequent corrections, it may be estimated that approxi-

mately four to five million people suffered unnatural deaths during

the Difficult Three Year Period.





These deaths had a complex series

of causes. Starvation-caused deaths were the primary type, followed

by weak disaster relief, and then by mistakes of local government.





READ CHENG ENFU AND ZHAN ZHIHUA AND SUN JINGXIAN

BELOW PDF FULL PAPER BY CHENG ENFU AND ZHAN ZHIHUA

BELOW PDF FULL PAPER : POPULATION CHANGES DURING CHINA'S THREE YEARS OF HARDSHIP BY SUN JINGXIAN

Proper historical materialist research of both Maoist China in 1950's and 60's and the Soviet Union in the 1930's and 1940's increasingly show





profoundly invested in them - just the slow emergence of truth with the passing of time. Do not expect Road to Damascus like conversations of Trotskyists and Revisionists when these facts and reality are revealed they have been in the forefront of this falsification and













Mao in 1965 dealt with question of of the false 1950/60's population statistics and reasons for the inaccuracies here





https://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2014/10/edgar-snow-interview-of-chairman-mao-in.html