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1966 Politburo meeting
\- Mao accuses Liu and Deng of being the “spearheads of the erroneous line” at politburo meeting in August 1966
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PLA
\ * Revolutionary committees were formed and dominated by the army * Known as the People’s Liberation Army they replaced Red Guards and investigated political enemies
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Dengs removal
\- Deng is subjected to public humiliation, including being ranted at by 3000 red guards
\- Then was in solitary confinement
\- Then sent to perform corrective labour in Jiangxi province in 1969
\- His son Pufang was thrown from a window by red guards and broke his spine.
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Lin Biao
\ * Appointed 2nd in command in 1969 following successful organisation of the PLA * Relationship with Mao deteriorated as Mao feared Lin might oust hum * 1971 Lin drew up a plan to overthrow Mao, Project 571, but the plot was discovered and Lin tried to escape but his plane ‘crashed’ in the Mongolian desert
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Societal impacts of CR
\ * Trading patterns overturned * Matches, soap, toothpaste unattainable due to classification as luxury items * Family members encouraged to spy on each other * Divorce encouraged * Children sent to serve as Red Guards or re-education camps * Love seen as bourgeois; relationships and sex were frowned upon
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Economical impacts of CR
\ * Mobilisation of workers into factories often decreased quality and efficiency * Black market emerged * Economic structures varied on leadership resulting in a system made up of agricultural communes and individual landowners
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Educational impacts of CR
\ * Students not taught sex-ed * School was almost entirely ideological * Red Guards rampaged through schools
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Cultural impacts of CR
\ * Socialist realism only acceptable art form * Opera brought under state control and all except eight pro-communist operas were banned * Belief systems forced out and had to be practised in hiding * Imposed harsh repression on religion to focus on ideological thinking