Removal of Deng Xiaoping and the Flight of Lin/Impact of the cultural revolution
REMOVAL OF DENG XIAOPING FROM POLITICS AND THE FLIGHT OF LIN
Kang Sheng, an ally to Jiang, publicly listed traitors at a meeting of revolutionaries. Lin was first named.
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
Deng removed from public life in 1968
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
IMPACT OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ON SOCIETY, THE ECONOMY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Society
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
Economy
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
Education
Students not taught sex-ed
School was almost entirely ideological
Red Guards rampaged through schools
Culture
Socialist realism only acceptable art form
Opera brought under state control and all except eight pro-communist operas were banned
Religion
Belief systems forced out and had to be practised in hiding
Imposed harsh repression on religion to focus on ideological thinking
REMOVAL OF DENG XIAOPING FROM POLITICS AND THE FLIGHT OF LIN
Kang Sheng, an ally to Jiang, publicly listed traitors at a meeting of revolutionaries. Lin was first named.
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
Deng removed from public life in 1968
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
IMPACT OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ON SOCIETY, THE ECONOMY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Society
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
Economy
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
Education
Students not taught sex-ed
School was almost entirely ideological
Red Guards rampaged through schools
Culture
Socialist realism only acceptable art form
Opera brought under state control and all except eight pro-communist operas were banned
Religion
Belief systems forced out and had to be practised in hiding
Imposed harsh repression on religion to focus on ideological thinking