ABSTRACT
The Great Leap, involving unprecedented economic targets, simultaneous growth of the traditional and modern sectors, "self-reliance" on local resources, and massive labor mobilization accomplished by organizational and ideological measures, had quite different ramifications. The leap forward necessitated organization shorn of bureaucracy that could be linked directly to the people, the motive force of the new strategy. As rectification continued in 1958 its aims were inseparable from those of the Great Leap Forward. Leading cadres such as Party secretaries of ministries were ordered to assume personal leadership of rectification and engage in self-criticism. The most purging of Party members came after the Third Plenum as the leap forward and attacks on right conservatism gained momentum. The relevance of the Ministry of Supervision's case to the Great Leap was indicated by several accusations against Wang Han, P'eng Ta. By the time of the 1957-1958 provincial purges radical views had gained ascendancy in Peking, views which led to the Great Leap Forward.
