Winding Down the Cultural Revolution
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- Created on: 03-02-19 17:48
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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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