how did mao actually start the cultural revolution?
sensitivelyambiguous asked:
how did he actually spread the idea to the masses particularly in beijing? via speeches? via newspapers? how did the youths get to know about the cultural revolution, which eventually led to the formation of red guards.
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The Cultural Revolution was launched by Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong during his last
decade in power (1966-76) to renew the spirit of the Chinese revolution. Fearing that China
would develop along the lines of the Soviet model and concerned about his own place in history,
Mao threw China’s cities into turmoil in a monumental effort to reverse the historic processes
underway.
During the early 1960s, tensions with the Soviet Union convinced Mao that the Russian revolution had gone astray, which in turn made him fear that China would follow the same path. Programs carried out by his colleagues to bring China out of the economic depression caused by the Great Leap Forward made Mao doubt their revolutionary commitment and
also resent his own diminished role. He especially feared urban social stratification in a society as traditionally elitist as China. Mao thus ultimately adopted four goals for the Cultural
Revolution: to replace his designated successors with leaders more faithful to his current thinking; to rectify the Chinese Communist Party; to provide China’s youths with a revolutionary experience; and to achieve some specific policy changes so as to make the educational, health care, and cultural systems less elitist. He initially pursued these goals through a massive mobilization of the country’s urban youths. They were organized into groups called the Red Guards, and Mao ordered the party and the army not to suppress the movement.
Mao also put together a coalition of associates to help him carry out ……
The movement began in September 1965 with a speech by Lin Piao who urged pupils in schools and colleges to return to the basic principles of the revolutionary movement. Chinese youths were also encouraged to openly criticise the liberals in the Chinese Communist Party and those apparently influenced by Nikita Khruschev of the USSR. Educational establishments were considered to be too academic and, therefore, too elitist.
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