Winding Down the Cultural Revolution

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Winding Down the Cultural Revolution 

  • EIghteen million red guards sent to countryside in 'up mountains and down villages' campaign 
  • Peasants had little to feed them and often excluded them, became the 'lost generation'
  • Lin Biao reinstated post of head of state, Mao percieved it as a move against him 
  • LIn BIao panicked and tried to flee, but his plane crashed killing him, his wife and his son, denounced a sa traitor 
  • In 1975 Deng Xiaoping appointed to the politburo standing comitee once again, also PLA head of staff
  • Deng pushed through four modernisations, clear advancement

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