Event

Cultural Revolution

Political movement in China from May 1966 to October 1976, led by Mao Zedong, which the Party's 1981 history calls its heaviest setback since 1949.

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Communist Party of China says it caused the most severe setback and the heaviest losses since 1949 According to Communist Party of China Primary record 1

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Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (text on the Marxists Internet Archive), 27 Jun 1981. Primary record
It was initiated and led by Comrade Mao Zedong.
was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic.
taking advantage of Comrade Mao Zedong’s errors, committed many crimes behind his back, bringing disaster to the country and the people.
Chief responsibility for the grave “Left” error of the “cultural revolution
does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong.
The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Scope, Timing and Human Impact (abstract), The China Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Scholarship & press
a similar number of people permanently injured, and 36 million who suffered some form of political persecution
The vast majority of these casualties occurred from 1968 to 1971, after the end of the period of popular rebellion and factional conflict and the establishment of provisional organs of local state power.

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