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Cultural Revolution
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China’s internal political struggles after the Cultural Revolution
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1966: China
A great political upheaval shook China in 1966. Termed by its authors the 'great proletarian cultural revolution,' this many-faceted upheaval had two major themes: a drastic effort to get rid of unorthodox ideas and men suspected of holding them and a struggle for power among the top leaders. As...
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