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Day: 23 August 2023

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What lay behind Mao’s Cultural Revolution?

August 23, 2023 Christine Thomas, from Socialism Today (Issue 267 May 2023)

The Cultural Revolution – a period that is generally considered to have spanned the ten years from 1966 to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 – is one of the most confusing and misunderstood […]

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