Cultural revolution.(Time Trip)(Brief article)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: September 29, 2006 | Copyright information

In his later years, Mao Zedong was concerned that China was becoming "soft" on communism. He wanted to light a "single spark [that would] start a prairie fire" to get rid of all anticommunist influences. In 1966, he launched the Cultural Revolution to achieve that goal.

At the start of the revolution, Mao urged thousands of students, who came to be known as the Red Guards, to energetically destroy China's "four olds"--old customs, habits, culture, and thinking. The assa...

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