China 4 CR

• Pragmatists vs ideologues

  Disagreements over socialist road and capitalist road
• Remove opponents

  1. Use of article to criticise Wu Han

  2. Liu & Deng main pragmatists key targets during CR
• Permanent revolution


  Remove bureaucracy & 'new elites', refocus on ideology
• Revolutionise Youth

  1. Needed their own "Long March', civil war, revolutionary experience

  2. In order to carry on revolution in future
• Culture

  • Begins with play, CRG is about controlling culture
  • Little Red Book is about ideologically pure culture
• August 1966-launch of Cultural Revolution

  1. Memo, Red Guards, 4 olds (ideas, culture, customs habits), mass rallies, big character posters

  2. Mao said Bombard the Headquarters and It is right to rebel
• Autumn 1966-December 1966


  1. Destruction of culture, struggle meetings

  2. Workers and rival groups forming: Red Guards vs Rebels
• January 1967 - January Storm


  Seizure of party control by workers in Shanghai
• February 1967-February Adverse Current


  Zhu De criticised for speaking out against chaos
• April 1967-Red Guard battles


  With PLA in Wuhan
• August 1967 - Foreign Ministry seized


  By Red Guards. Only PLA prevented them gaining access to nuclear weapon facilities
• September 1967 - further violence


  Between PLA & Red Guards
• 1968-Mao ordered PLA


  To start reigning in violence
• April 1969-9 Party Congress


  Red Guards sent to rural ends