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Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1957

The Great Leap Forward was a program by Mao to modernize China in line with socialist theory. It was a catastrophic failure that may have killed as many as 55 million people. And then he made his comeback to power a number of years later in 1966, after this huge collapse. Then he launches the Cultural Revolution, which is where you have the struggle sessions.

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