History GCSE
Role of the Red Guards
What Role of the Red Guards means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Mao's youthful enforcers of class struggle, described as a mass student movement mobilised by Mao.
Topics that use Role of the Red Guards
- China 1950–1981: The People and the State (J410/01) - China during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976 (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Causes of the Cultural Revolution
- Impact on intellectuals and students
- Propaganda and Mao's personality cult
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