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The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought as the dominant ideology in the PRC. The Revolution marked the return of Mao, who was Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to the central position of power after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failures of the Great Leap Forward, which caused the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961). However, the Revolution failed to achieve its main goals.

Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Period of sociopolitical turmoil in China (1966–1976) This article is about the movement in China. For events elsewhere also called the "Cultural Revolution", see Cultural Revolution (disambiguation) . For revolutions in culture generally, see List of cultural, intellectual, philosophical and technological revolutions . This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably . When this tag was added, its readable prose size was 15,444 words. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it,

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