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Causes of the Cultural Revolution

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Mao's wish to reassert his authority after the failures of the Great Leap Forward and to attack 'capitalist roaders' and 'bourgeois' thinking in the Party and society.

OCR · China 1950–1981: The People and the State (J410/01) - China during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976

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China 1950–1981: The People and the State (J410/01) - China during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976 (OCR GCSE)

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