LoginThe Cultural Revolution: Power Struggle or Genuine Reform?
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The Cultural Revolution was more than just a struggle for power at the top of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao’s main concern was to restore his declining power. At the heart of the struggle was the future direction of China – the capitalist or the Communist way. The issues were complicated and never a really a strict ‘left’ versus ‘right’ battle, but the ideas of both sides were bitterly contested as the campaign took off. Many lives were ruined and the economy was weakened. And although Maoists ‘won’ the battle, they lost the war. It was the principles of Deng Xiaoping and Lui Shaoqi that now dominate China. Ma
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