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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
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
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.
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
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
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
Educational impacts of CR
Students not taught sex-ed
School was almost entirely ideological
Red Guards rampaged through schools
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
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