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| Beginning in the 1960s many Chinese Communists came to regard Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a godlike hero. The Quotations of Chairman Mao, a collection of Mao’s words that was commonly known as his “Little Red Book,” became the handbook of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Mao’s words inspired Red Guards—groups of radical Communist students who were fiercely loyal to Mao—to attempt to revolutionize Chinese society through violence and destruction. | ||||||
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