Cultural Revolution Key Words

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Ideologue
committed to Communist revolution
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Pragmatists
developing Communism at a slower pace, rational approach
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Capitalist roaders
exploit the peasants for personal gain
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Bourgeois elements
middle class elitism
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Fanaticism and Utopianism
idealistic faith in total Communism
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Continuous revolution
permanent revolutionary culture
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Proletariat party
party of the working class
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Revisionists
those who wanted less extreme Communism
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The Four Olds
Old customs, culture, habits, ideas
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Hai Rui Dismissed from Office
allegory for dismissal of Peng Duhai at Lushan Conference 1959, allowed Mao to attack Liu
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'Dead ancestor'
Mao's believed treatment after GLF
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'Early Ten Points'
Mao's proposal that the masses be mobilised to criticise corrupt Party cadres. The response was poor, which Mao blamed Liu for
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Four clean ups
economy, organisation, politics and ideology
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'Later Ten Points'
Deng revises it, focus on stability
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The Cultural Revolution Group
formed March 1966 by Mao to direct the CR; 17 member sub committee of the Politburo
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Sixteen-point directive
Mao's blueprint, elevated the student protests to a mass mobilisation campaign to rise up and challenge authority
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Red Terror
mass violence and arrests carried out by Red Guards from August 1966 to September 1967
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'Black elements'
people from bourgeois backgrounds, prove themselves through joining the Red Guard
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'Bombard the headquarters'
poster campaign instructing the youth to criticise the party
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January storm
radical group of Red Guards workers take over government in Shanghai and set up democratic system based on 1871 Paris Commune
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February Adverse Current
Mao encourages greater violence, criticsed by Zhu De and Cen Yi who are labelled as adverse current
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Rectification campaign
replace bourgeois CCP members with revolutionary Red Guards
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May 7th Cadre Schools
Chinese re-education labour camps
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'Cleansing of class ranks'
campaign to put party back in control
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'Up to the mountains'
poster campaign to disperse the RG
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'Four Modernisations'
agriculture, industry, defence and science/ technology
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'Criticise Lin, Criticise Confucius'
campaign launched by GOF to label Lin as modern rightist, campaign failed
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