The Cultural Revolution was Mao’s last attempt at creating the utopian socialist society he’d long envisioned ... similarly betray his legacy. To purge suspected traitors from the upper ...

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Christopher Rufo's new book, "America's Cultural Revolution" (Broadside Books (July 18, 2023). In 1975, the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

He ran back to find his cousin and his friends, thinking, “Although I’d long become inured to the many fantastical oddities emerging from the Cultural Revolution, this notice and this ‘court ...

In response, he launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" to weed out and purge purveyors of capitalism and traditional thinking. It was during this period that Mao's cult of personality ...

The Cultural Revolution, a decade-long socio-political upheaval initiated by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966, caused as many as two million deaths and reshaped China. Under the influence of Mao’s ...

Launched by Mao in 1966 to purge the CCP of those whom he considered revisionists, the Cultural Revolution also furthered ... focus on what they term “the long 1970s” in China, which extends ...

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political purge and persecution of millions ... people need to be subject to re-education. “How long are we going to have to wait for White people to ...

Mao mobilized the youth in schools into forces called the Red Guards to begin the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards then began to purge capitalist and traditional Chinese elements from the ...

Song Binbin, who died Sept. 16 at 77, was a teenage face of the Cultural Revolution, the bloody decade-long campaign in which Chinese leader Mao Zedong persecuted perceived enemies of the ...