The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Role of the Youth
Plan of investigation
Within this investigation, I intend to investigate the role played by the Chinese youth during the Cultural Revolution in 1966-1969.
I plan to analyze the importance and contributions committed by the youth of the time. In order to do this I will gather information, which I then will review, compare and evaluate from a critical perspective. This is in order to finally be able to come to a conclusion to the question above.
By taking into account the sources' origins, purposes, value and limitations, I will have a final discussion and summary, which I will carefully justify.
Summary of evidence
Source A, Michael Lynch * Mao was convinced that the workers needed to be organized and engaged revolutionaries, and that they had to be led by advance-guards and a strong leader. * Maoism wanted peasant-revolution because he regarded it as the most appropriate.
Mao redefined dialectics and felt that the revolution ended with the peasant revolution. He did not want people to be freed or develop into citizens. Mao wanted to keep the central power and the old imperial traditions.
Mao picked pieces from Marxism-Leninism that fit in his quest to restore the former greatness of China, with a strong central government that would rule over the masses. Mao wanted to avoid the emancipation and he aimed to reestablish Chinese traditional central power with himself in the imperial position. * After the destalinization the USSR evolved in to a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism. This was not liked by Chairman Mao and resulted in the Sino-Soviet split. * Mao blamed bourgeois elements instead of Communism for the failure of the GLF. * The GLF had failed to meet the industrial targets that were set, and the introduction of the new agrarian policies was a failure that created chaos. This damaged Mao’s reputation. * General Secretary Deng Xiaoping and President Liu Shaoqi were called upon and asked to end the catastrophe. The economic
Within this investigation, I intend to investigate the role played by the Chinese youth during the Cultural Revolution in 1966-1969.
I plan to analyze the importance and contributions committed by the youth of the time. In order to do this I will gather information, which I then will review, compare and evaluate from a critical perspective. This is in order to finally be able to come to a conclusion to the question above.
By taking into account the sources' origins, purposes, value and limitations, I will have a final discussion and summary, which I will carefully justify.
Summary of evidence
Source A, Michael Lynch * Mao was convinced that the workers needed to be organized and engaged revolutionaries, and that they had to be led by advance-guards and a strong leader. * Maoism wanted peasant-revolution because he regarded it as the most appropriate.
Mao redefined dialectics and felt that the revolution ended with the peasant revolution. He did not want people to be freed or develop into citizens. Mao wanted to keep the central power and the old imperial traditions.
Mao picked pieces from Marxism-Leninism that fit in his quest to restore the former greatness of China, with a strong central government that would rule over the masses. Mao wanted to avoid the emancipation and he aimed to reestablish Chinese traditional central power with himself in the imperial position. * After the destalinization the USSR evolved in to a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism. This was not liked by Chairman Mao and resulted in the Sino-Soviet split. * Mao blamed bourgeois elements instead of Communism for the failure of the GLF. * The GLF had failed to meet the industrial targets that were set, and the introduction of the new agrarian policies was a failure that created chaos. This damaged Mao’s reputation. * General Secretary Deng Xiaoping and President Liu Shaoqi were called upon and asked to end the catastrophe. The economic