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 ::At the moment there are several events which are described in way too much detail (4-5 paragraphs) without any attempt at relating them to the main topic. For instance, the section of ""The Great Leap"" does not give any reference to a source which calls these events ""mass killings"". (And no, I am not trying to say that I dispute the fact that a lot of people died, but that is not necessarily the same as a mass killing.) If we agree on alternative 2, each of these sections should be condensed and explicitly related to some kind of theory of why these mass killings were caused by communist ideology or communist authoritarianism etc.   "