Cultural Revolution

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Cultural Revolution

• H. Craig Petersen
• USU 1300

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Cultural Revolution

• Well destroy old world and build a new
• Remove corrupt ideas, politics, economics and
  organizations
• Return to basics

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Red Guards

• Formed to eliminate intellectuals and political
  enemies.
• Became foremost authority in China.
• No one could stop them.

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Purge intellectuals imperialists

• Sent to detention camps
• Work in labor camps or factories to know what it
  is like in the real world
• Work in harsh conditions many died as a result
  of malnutrition or disease.

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Re-education

• Public criticism of individuals
• Indoctrination sessions to reeducate.

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Leadership

• Given to middle class and poor peasants.
• Reeducate young intellectuals
• To remove emerging forces that might threaten the
  Chinese Communist Party.
• Transform education, literature, art politics