Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Communists were not sacrosanct. A pair of East German army officers were dragged from their cars and knocked about like so many imperialists. The offense was severe enough to draw a stiff protest from Pankow-one of many objections from Communist countries to China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Even Cuba's Fidel Castro, no believer in gentle Communism, denounced the Peking paranoids. "It is a sad circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with...
Sick or Secluded? With Monday morning hindsight, China-watchers now date the beginnings of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution back to 1963, when a worried Mao instituted his "Socialist Education Movement" in an attempt to get the Chinese psychology back on the revolutionary tracks. Somewhere along the line, possibly at the secret Central Committee plenum of September 1965, he decided stronger doses of Mao-think were needed...
Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...been clear for weeks that China was heading for some sort of momentous crescendo, but no one knew exactly what to expect. Last week, as the impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution abruptly spilled out across the land, the nightmare of it all became chillingly clear. Mao Tse-tung aimed to blot out not only all traces of foreign influence, but to tear out China's own cultural and historical roots as well...
...Peking within three days, return to their villages and submit themselves to the will of the people. Overseas Chinese who had returned to Peking to live out their last days were ordered to go to work on farms. Cried the Guards: "We shall transform Peking into a truly proletarian, truly revolutionary city...