319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao
The Realignment
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The Cultural Revolution
The ideology behind the Cultural Revolution is quite straightforward: Communist ideology under threat. But underneath, there's another idea that Mao allows ordinary people to denounce a remember of the Communist Party. So when Mao dies in 1976, the leaders are determined never, ever to allow ordinary people to criticize the Communist Party again. And that is precisely what happens afterwards.
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