The Chinese Cultural Revolution (CR), the full title of which was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was the largest and most important of the ideological campaigns of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). Because of the political movement's...

With little agreement on when it began (1964, late 1965 or mid 1966), how long it lasted (three years, 1966–9, or a decade, 1966–76), what it was about (culture, revolution, power struggles, or simply Mao Zedong’s monomania), or what...

Cultural revolution is part of the post-Marx development of Marxist theory, most importantly with Chinese communism under the guidance of Mao Zedong. The general idea of cultural revolution is as a corrective to the materialistic assumption that some...

(1966–76) Upheaval launched by Mao Zedong to renew the spirit of revolution in China. Mao feared urban social stratification in a society as traditionally elitist as China and also believed that programs instituted to correct for the failed Great...

A change in the organization of the Chinese society and economy in the late 1960s and 1970s. This revolution challenged the DIVISION OF LABOUR previously practised, especially by breaking down the division between the town and countryside....

This article is about the People's Republic of China. For Iran's Islamic Cultural Revolution, see Iran's Cultural Revolution of 1980-1987. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution[1] in the People's Republic of China was a struggle...