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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: Cultural Revolution 00:02:37 1 Background 00:02:46 1.1 Great Leap Forward 00:06:03 1.2 Sino-Soviet split and anti-revisionism 00:08:05 1.3 Precursor 00:10:40 1.3.1 February Outline 00:12:06 2 Early stage: mass movement 00:12:16 2.1 May 16 notification 00:14:20 2.2 Early mass rallies 00:17:01 2.3 "Bombard the headquarters" 00:20:17 2.4 Red Guards and the destruction of the "Four Olds" 00:26:46 2.5 Radicals expand power (1967) 00:30:17 2.6 1968 00:32:05 3 Lin Biao phase 00:32:14 3.1 Transition of power 00:34:29 3.2 PLA gains pre-eminent role 00:37:56 3.3 Flight of Lin Biao 00:41:24 4 "Gang of Four" and their downfall 00:41:35 4.1 Antagonism towards Zhou and Deng 00:46:08 4.2 Death of Zhou Enlai 00:47:39 4.3 Tiananmen Incident 00:49:34 4.4 Death of Mao and Arrest of the Gang of Four 00:50:58 5 Aftermath 00:54:08 6 Policy and effect 00:58:29 6.1 Education 01:01:43 6.2 Slogans and rhetoric 01:04:29 6.3 Arts and literature 01:09:25 6.3.1 Propaganda art 01:11:54 6.4 Historical relics 01:14:10 6.5 Struggle sessions and purges 01:16:44 6.5.1 Death toll 01:17:53 6.6 Ethnic minorities 01:21:09 7 Legacy 01:21:18 7.1 China 01:21:26 7.1.1 Communist Party opinions 01:24:52 7.1.2 Alternative opinions 01:27:37 7.1.3 Contemporary China 01:29:18 7.2 Outside mainland China 01:30:50 7.3 Academic debate 01:34:41 8 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKf... You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to preserve CPC-style Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China simply as Maoism) as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked Mao's return to a position of power after the failures of his Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively affected both the economy and society of the country to a significant degree. The movement was launched in May 1966, after Mao alleged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China, Mao insisted that revisionists be removed through violent class struggle. China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials, most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. During the same period, Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions. In the violent struggles that ensued across the country, millions of people were persecuted and suffered a wide range of abuses including public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, hard labor, sustained harassment, seizure of property and sometimes execution. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced, most notably the transfer of urban youth to rural regions during the Down to the Countryside Movement. Historical relics and artifacts were destroyed and cultural and religious sites were ransacked. Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of military leader and proposed Mao successor Lin Biao in 1971. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gradually began to dismantle the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the Party declared that the Cultural Revolution was "responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People's Republic".

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