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The Red Guards And The Cult Of Mao. ... This paper will cover the Cult of Mao
and the role the Red Guards played during this time in China. ...
... Mao rightly saw that the best way to provide both direction for the Red Guards and
to make ... upon party official would be to foster a personality Cult. ...
... Mao rightly saw that the best way to provide both direction for the Red Guards and
to make ... upon party official would be to foster a personality Cult. ...
... Mao mobilized youth into the Red Guards to attack his political ... leader of the People's
Liberation Army, Mao established himself as a godlike cult figure ...
... They formed a group called the Red Guards, who criticized the people that Mao
disliked. ... Mao created a cult for himself, and to clear and remove any ...
Submitted by blake1983 on April 20, 2008
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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 constructive criticism towards their teachers and administration. They called themselves the Red Guards and they would in turn be a very useful tool to chairman Mao. Their leader was Zhang Chengzhi and the group as a whole was looked upon by the administration as “radicals”. Before long, the Red Guards were getting recognition at all levels of society and it eventually reached Mao Zedong. Mao set up investigations at the schools and in return got rid of school administrations. After this, the group was pretty much free to put up more posters which were calling for a radical revolution. This idea was even supported and published by the People’s Daily. After the publication in the newspaper, students all over Beijing wanted to join the group.2
The Red Guard’s role in Mao’s Cultural Revolution was pretty simple. They went all over China to different schools and universities talking about the teachings of Mao. They wanted everybody in China to follow the teachings of...
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