The “Red Guards” And The “Cult Of Mao”
Mao Zedong and the Red Guards go hand in hand in the history of China. Mao knew that the Red Guards were a useful tool in implementing his teachings. The Red Guards were a group of people who were very devoted to Mao and they wanted to spread his ideas all over China. This paper will cover the Cult of Mao and the role the Red Guards played during this time in China.
Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution in 1966 in the hoped that it would put an end to “liberal bourgeoisie” and to keep China in its revolutionary class struggles. Many people look at it as Mao trying to regain power from the Great Leap Forward because he lost a lot of power to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. The Cultural Revolution almost brought China into a civil war because most of China was in a conflict due to struggles in social, political, and economic realms of society.1
The Red Guards came about when a group of students at a high school attached to Tsinghua University put posters up that had......
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