The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

What Happened? :

As the result of the Great Leap Forward, China 's economy went in to a major crisis. However, Mao increasingly concerned that he was being push in the background. He had a plan to regain the power. Mao believed that China was still a prisoner of her past. He targeted young people and hoped to push China forward. In 1962 Mao came out of a semi-retirement to launch " Socialist Education Movement" The ten years of chaotic mass struggle began in 1966. This was the campaign to get the Chinese people back on the right path of communism. The " Little Red Book" which contained Mao's thought and ideas was studied and recited by Red Guards. This warship is known as the Cult of personality. It has spread throughout China during the Cultural Revolution. In June 1966, schools and universities were all closed down .In May 1966 students in Beijing began to organize themselves as Red Guards to root out what they called " bourgeois attitudes" in university. They also attacked the Four Olds", old ideas, old cultures, old customs and old habits including anything influenced by the Soviet