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On 26 June 1981, the Sixth Plenum of the CCP's Eleventh Central Committee accepted the resignation of Hua Guofeng as chairman. [5]: 444 The next day, on 27 June, the Sixth Plenum of the Central Committee unanimously adopted the Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China.
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.
Gao Mobo, writing in The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution, argues that the movement benefited millions of Chinese citizens, particularly agricultural and industrial workers, [7]: 1 and sees it as egalitarian and genuinely populist, citing continued Maoist nostalgia today as remnants of its positive legacy.
[3] [4] [5] In 2004, the Chinese version of her book (Victim of the Cultural Revolution—An Investigative Account of Persecution, Imprisonment and Murder) was published in Hong Kong by Open Books (开放出版社), detailing stories of 659 victims of the Cultural Revolution, including that of Bian Zhongyun, the first education worker who was ...
The book received the 2012 Barrington Moore Book Award by the American Sociological Association. [4] Frank Dikotter called the book "a truly terrific book" and "long overdue too", and that Su "has written a model of rigorous scholarship that squarely places the Cultural Revolution where it should have been all along, in the area of genocide studies on a par with Rwanda, as villagers turned ...
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
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 Cultural Revolution brought to the forefront numerous power struggles both within the Communist Party, and against it from the left.Factional conflict between Red Guard and rebel organizations happened for a wide range of reasons: some purely for the seizure and dominance of political power, others were fought over pre-existing class resentments, while still more struggled to stay afloat ...