Why did Mao Launch the
cultural revolution?
Topic: Definitions
Recall Notes
Ideologue Gives high priority to theoretical ideas
Emphasise the means
Pragmatist Give higher value on taking whatever course of action
is necessary to produce a required result
Emphasise the ends
Capitalist Roaders Derogatory term for those implementing capitalist
policies
Socialist
Education Supposed to cleanse china of reactionary elements
Movement:
Failure = lead to the campaign against the ‘four
olds’ (1966)
Mandarins:
Exclusive elite of high-ranking , privileged civil servants
Central Cultural who had run China before the revolution of 1911
Revolution Group
(CCRG):
Directed the Cultural Revolution from inside the
Politburo
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