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Mao’s China, 1945–76

Reasons for the Cultural Revolution

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Overview

Mao's loss of standing, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping as capitalist roaders, Lin Biao and Jiang Qing as allies, the Socialist Education Movement, and Mao's views on schools and red over expert.

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Who was Liu Shaoqi?

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Who was Deng Xiaoping?

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Which allies did Mao gather before launching the Cultural Revolution?

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  1. 1

    How had Mao's own standing changed by the early 1960s?

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    He had given up the post of head of state in 1959 and was respected as a figurehead while others made the decisions.

  2. 2

    Who was Liu Shaoqi?

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    The head of state from 1959 and Mao's expected successor, who ran the recovery from the famine.

  3. 3

    Who was Deng Xiaoping?

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    The general secretary of the party, who worked with Liu Shaoqi to rebuild the economy after 1962.

  4. 4

    What did Mao accuse Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping of doing to China?

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    Taking the capitalist road and creating a privileged class of officials and experts cut off from ordinary people.

  5. 5

    Which allies did Mao gather before launching his attack?

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    Lin Biao, who had made the army devoted to him, and his wife Jiang Qing with her radical supporters in Shanghai.

  6. 6

    What was the Socialist Education Movement of 1963?

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    A campaign to teach socialist values again, sending officials to labour in the fields and rooting out corruption in the communes.

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