Cultural Revolution Flashcards

1
Q

Socialist Education Mvmnt

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1962
~ counter bureaucratisation
~ reverse socioeconomic policies
~ revitalise collectivist spirit

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2
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4 cleans campaign; an investigation into how …

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~ cadres determined workpoints
~ kept accounts
~ distributed supplies
~ handled warehouses and granaries

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3
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Twofold aim of 4 cleans camp.

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Root out corruption

Expose collusion between rich peasants and party cadres

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4
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Feared that the SEM would …

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Disrupt agricultural productivity and a threat to their own control of the party

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5
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Later ten points

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Deng Xiaoping Sept 1963

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6
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Revised later 10 points

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Liu Shaoqi September 1964

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7
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Maoists turned away from the party and to the PLA bc …

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It could

  • be the primary institutional repository for revolutionary values
  • model for refashioning society
  • vehicle to combat conservitism of the party bureaucracy
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8
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Learn from the PLA

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Lin Bao
Launched 1963
1) propaganda popularising heroic self sacrificial soldiers (Lei Feng)
2) by 1964 it’s output was more direct when PLA general political department ordered army personnel to work in schools, gvmnt offices and econ orgs
3) in the countryside the pla re .org militia

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9
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Copies of LRB

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1 m

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10
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Mao cult of p pervasive by

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1965

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11
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Foreign embassies attacked in CR

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11 staff beaten

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12
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8 things attacked as 4 olds

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Western fashion 
Correction stations shave heads
Street names changed
Houses ransacked for bourgeois possessions 
Non Maoist books burned 
Religion; no public worship 
Family life destroyed (commies were parents)
Physical destruction of cultural sites
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13
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Crematorium in Beijing body count

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2000 per fortnight

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14
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Guangxi death toll 66-67

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67k

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15
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CR death toll

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1/2 m

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16
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Embassies attacked

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11

Staff beaten

17
Q

January storm

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jan 66
Chaotic fighting between red guard factions in Shanghai
Stoped by PLA

18
Q

Red Guard expansion

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Formation of new RG factions from factory workers and non-party bourgeois backgrounds
As mvmnt widened splits between factions emerge

19
Q

Mao realises PLA May not be able to defend China

Made U turn allowed pla to crack down on radicals if needed

20
Q

Revolutionary rebels seized Shanghai’s newspapers and brought about party authority collapse in city

A

Jan 67
Mao sent 2 of his allies to eat new political authority
Rebels announce they’d run city w pla support

21
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Other provinces seized by rebel groups Jan 67

22
Q

Jiang Qing directed RG to replace PLA (no longer rev enough)

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July 22nd 1967

23
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Wuhan Incident

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Two revolutionary groups emerge in W (one pro one against the establishment)
Violently fought to control the city
Chen Zaidao (local PLA general) supported the million heroes (arms them, fights against RG ⬅️ seize their HQ)
Mao flew to area to rescue military loyalty to the anti-est revolutionary RGs
Mao sends other PLA troops to crush the million heroes and Chen

24
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Cultural destruction in Beijing

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2/3 historical places destroyed

25
Homes raided in Beijing to find old artefacts
100k
26
Zhou Enlai actions against cultural destruction
Prevented attack on Forbidden City (brought in PLA defence)
27
Bombard the Headquarters
RG purged party membership at all levels
28
Politburo member of 1966 that held onto their posts
9/23
29
Regional secretaries purged
4/6
30
% provincial and regional officials purged
70%
31
Central Committee members purged by 68
2/3
32
(Locally) % party officials purged
20%
33
No. cadres sent to Cadre schls
3m May 7th Political study and hard physical labour
34
Party central committee meeting criticised Liu and Deng
Aug 66
35
RG demonstration aimed at Liu and Deng
Oct 66
36
Liu and Deng dismisses from Gvmnt and Party
Oct 66
37
Wall posters denounce Liu and Deng for betraying the rev
Oct 66
38
Pla begin to purge RG
Autumn 68