Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Between 1966 and 1976 China went through one of the darkest periods in its modern history: the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic and head of the Communist Party, was not launching a reform. He was launching a purge to win back absolute power.
By turning the young against the state and against society itself, he caused the persecution of tens of millions of people and the destruction of a huge part of China's heritage.
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- 2After the failure of the Great Leap
- 3The fury of the Red Guards
- 4From chaos to control
- 5The reckoning, then the pragmatic turn
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary13 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
