The Cultural Revolution
Movement of the People's Republic of China-1966
End to Dynasties
- Two thousand years of imperial rule comes to an end with the removal of the emperor in the Xinhai Revolution.
- The revolutionists where defeated by Communist parties, who became the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
- New socialist state, the working class as leaders of a people's democratic dictatorship.
- Under Mao Zedong , chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
- 1966 Cultural Revolution, Mao attempting to capture the glory days of the Revolution, to fire up the masses.
Revolutionary (Before)
- Revolution to overturn the old order
- Promised equal rights for women, land disruption, rent reduction, and increase heavy industry.
- China using Soviet models to create a more industrialized state.
- Five year plan, mirror to the project created by Stalin, fueled by China's industrialized state helped to catch up China with the rest of the industrialized world.
- The first five year plan worked, population increase, then Mao introduced the Great Leap Forward.
- Attempted steel production.
- The cultural revolution targeted schoolchildren, who were organized into red guards to remove the old fours
The Old Fours: Customs, Culture, Habits, and Ideas
Mao's Red Guard
Little Red Book
Propaganda
Shaming
Violence
Destruction
Tradition
The Gang of Four
Communist and Power
Sources
"1966: China’s Cultural Revolution." Columbia Journalism School Centennial. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 June 2016.
"Living Revolution | Red Guards." Living Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2016.
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