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173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution

The Rest Is History

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Mao Am - The Great Leap Forward

One thinwhich i think is in some ways difficult to recapture in the present day, but it's really worth understanding, is how central mau made his own personality a to the success of the chinese revolution. We tend to think of the culture revolution as being the apotheosis, you know, the absolute final pique point of china,. But that didn't start in the 19 sixties. It really began n the 19 forties, when essentially acolytes, people who wanted to come and become parts of the communist revolution, were made to undergo a training programme. And of 22 key text 18 were by mow In other words, he was very much placing his

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