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The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese socialism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society.
The Inner Mongolia incident, or the Inner Mongolia People's Revolutionary Party purge incident (Chinese: 内人党事件; pinyin: Nèi rén dǎng shìjiàn), was a massive political purge which occurred during the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia. [1] [2] The purge was supported by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and ...
The Daoxian massacre (simplified Chinese: 道县大屠杀; traditional Chinese: 道縣大屠殺; pinyin: Dào Xiàn Dàtúshā), or Dao County massacre, was a massacre which took place during the Cultural Revolution in Dao County, Hunan as well as ten other nearby counties and cities. [1]
Some argued that, since the late 1980s, China has experienced "at first a fitful and then a nationwide revival in Mao Zedong", including aspects of the Cultural Revolution. [10]: 6–7 Maoist hold that the Cultural Revolution "cleansed" China from superstitions, religious dogma, and outdated traditions in a "modernist transformation" that later ...
Thus, the goal of the socialist education movement was to "purify politics, purify economics, purify the organization, and purify thought" in opposition to revisionism. [1] Mao sought to make Communist Party cadres closer to the people and to increase revolutionary consciousness among younger people who had grown up after the founding of the ...
The "Five Red Categories" (Chinese: 红五类; pinyin: Hóngwǔlèi) during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) were the social classes favoured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as opposed to the Five Black Categories that were classified as potential threats or enemies.
The name came from a May 16, 1966 notice (五一六通知) which Chen Boda wrote the initial draft of, and which Mao Zedong substantially revised. [1] However, Mao was concerned with its radicalism, so in late 1967 the group was outlawed on conspiracy and anarchism charges, followed by the arrest of most Cultural Revolution Group members ...
The notification formalized the decisions that had been reached in late April. It was the first major political declaration of the Cultural Revolution [3]: 117 and summarized Mao's justifications for the Cultural Revolution. [1]: 40 It emphasized the need to defeat bourgeois representatives in the party, government, and army. [4]: 145