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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.
[2] [9] Mao had spent thirty-two days in Hunan Province making an investigation and wrote this report in order to answer to the criticisms of the leadership of the CCP towards the peasantry. [2] Throughout the report, advocated a then heretical strategy of mobilizing poor peasants to carry out "struggle" ( douzheng ).
The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society. The goal was to form a new type of culture as part of the building of a socialist society , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] including an increase in the proportion of people from ...
Conservative Faction (Cultural Revolution) Continuous Revolution Theory; Counterattack the Right-Deviationist Reversal-of-Verdicts Trend; Cow demons and snake spirits; Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius
The Nepali Maoists were highly influenced by Mao's views on protracted war, new democracy, support of masses, permanency of revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. [291] Mao's major contribution to the military science is his theory of People's War , with not only guerrilla warfare but more importantly, Mobile Warfare ...
The Great Leap was one of two periods between 1953 and 1976 in which China's economy shrank (the other being the Cultural Revolution). Economist Dwight Perkins argues that "enormous amounts of investment only produced modest increases in production or none at all. ... In short, the Great Leap [Forward] was a very expensive disaster". [9]
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Once a Red Guard himself during the Cultural Revolution, Song Yongyi, the author of the book, travelled to study in the United States in 1989. [6] [7] In August 1999, Song went back to mainland China to collect and research on materials regarding the Cultural Revolution, but was arrested and detained by the Chinese authorities and was accused of "stealing state secrets".