Cultural Revolution in China
How it began
- it began in the 1966
- Soviet Union was moving to far in a revisionist direction with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological
- maos own position in government had weakened after the failure of his "Great leap forward"
- Mao gathered a group of radicals, including his wife jiang Qing and defense minister Lin Biao to help atack current party leadership
- ended around 1968
who the red guards where
- group of youth who banded themselves together
- no one was safe from them: writers, economist, and anyone associated with the man Mao
- anyone who was deemed could have been considered a red guard
- encouraging all the youth in China to crisis those who Mao deemed
- Ethusiasm if the red guards nearly pushed China into social turmoil
how it effected the population
- when Mao launched the "great proletarian cultural revolution" which killed many peopl
- if anyone didn't follow the communist idea the children where encouraged to denounce even there parents
- education came to a virtual halt leading to a generation of inadequate causing a lag in technology and skills
- production and non production is discuptive by the political activity of the red guards and even student
- they turned their anger on foreigners and forgn embassies got attaded
something could happen like this today if nobody followed the rules/laws witch could make all this happen again.