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Mao's Cultural Revolution: The Struggle to Consolidate Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Philip Bridgham
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Abstract

In his keynote political report to the Ninth Party Congress, Lin Piao discussed at some length the history of the “great proletarian cultural revolution” from its formal inception at a May 1966 Central Committee work conference to its nominal conclusion at the Party Congress in April 1969. Although he listed the objectives of the Cultural Revolution as ideological, political and economic in character, Lin stressed that “the fundamental question in the current revolution” is “the question of political power, a question of which class holds leadership.”

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The China Quarterly , Volume 41 , January 1970 , pp. 1 - 25
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1970

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