The_Cultural_Revolution

The Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution was a movement in China that lasted from 1966 to 1976. The Cultural Revolution began as a campaign to root out the bourgeois influences in art and literature. In spring of 1966, it broadened to deal with bourgeois influences among the intellectuals in general. The Cultural Revolution was inspired by Mao. He felt that China was beginning to look like a version of the Russian revolution and he felt the fundamental goals of the revolution were being abandoned. He wanted to cut down the power and privileges that the ruling elite in China possessed. The goals of the Cultural Revolution were for China to have a prosperous economic economy and a government capable of maintaining national unity and upholding China’s place in the world. The Red Guards became the group representing the Cultural Revolution. They were also Mao’s enforcers to make the changes he felt were necessary to meet his goals of the revolution. Red Guards too over educational institutions. They attacked anything they felt represented Soviet or Western capitalist countries. The smashed the images in the Buddhist temples. They raided homes, mostly those of revolution, red, guards, cultural, china, army, began, out, goals, felt, mao’s, mao, educational, bourgeois, became, 1966, western, wanted, violent, violence, shaoqi, revolutionary, result, power, people, organizations, movement, mostly, liu, institutions, influences, getting, general, force, eventually