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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

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Noun1.Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
Cultural Revolution
revolution - a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution"
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world


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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as the government called it, plunged China into a decade of chaos that brought the nation of 750 million people close to anarchy and civil war.
1966 China's cultural revolution: seventeen years after the Communist ... by Yardley, Jim / New York Times Upfront
Zhou had been doing that since 1966, when Mao Zedong had launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and youths across the country had left school to form Red Guard units that set out to eradicate any vestiges of pre-Communist culture.
Average Zhou: a generation scarred by China's cultural revolution is ... by Frank, T.A. / Washington Monthly
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution derives a little bit of extra fragrance from excellent bibliographies, a glossary of Chinese terms, and a combined index at the end.
China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and ... by Schoenhals, Michael / Pacific Affairs
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