China: cultural revoltion
Mao's influence over Chinese politics declined severely after the Great Leap Forward, and the Sino-Soviet split (a term used to describe the split between Russian and China, which resulted in all Russian economic and military aid to cease) had produced a deep division within the Chinese leadership. A number of leaders, including the future chairman of China, Deng Xiaoping endorsed a more practical course. They argued that collectivization and industrialization had been pursued too quickly and that the mass campaigns were draining vital resources and energy. In fact most of these leaders had grown deeply suspicious of the mass movement character of 'Mao's China'. In the early 1960s, Mao was on the political sidelines and in semi-seclusion. By 1962, however, he began an offensive to purify the party, having grown increasingly uneasy about what he believed were the creeping capitalist and anti-socialist tendencies in the country. "As a hardened veteran revolutionary, Mao continued to believe that the material incentives that had been restored to the peasants and others were corrupting the masses." (2. View Bibliography for details) By mid 1965 Mao had gradually but systematically regained control of the
Indeed thousands were killed and imprisoned in incidents of mob violence. Premier Zhou Enlai, while remaining personally loyal to Mao, tried to mediate or to reconcile the two factions. The Red Guards campaigned against "old ideas, old culture, old habits, and old customs. (1) They styled themselves the "Revolutionary Successors" of Mao and went about trying to stamp out any evidence of pre revolutionary or counter revolutionary thought or social patterns. The "activist" phase of the Cultural Revolution was brought to an end in April 1969. However, the Cultural Revolution devastated the Chinese Communist Party as well as the economy of China. The failure of the Great Leap Forward touched off a power struggle between Mao and his supporters, and a reformist faction including future premier Deng Xiaoping. Others who had risen to power by means of political maneuvers during the Cultural Revolution were rewarded with positions on the Political Bureau, also a significant number of military commanders were appointed to the Central Committee. ), and Mao and his followers had since been in full command of the political scene. Mao's Cultural Revolution - for what? Common topics in this essay:
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