POWER, POLICY, AND IDEOLOGY IN THE MAKING OF CHINA'S 'CULTURAL REVOLUTION'

Abstract

An analysis of the sequence of events that culminated in Communist China's Great Cultural Revolution and the implications of the present upheaval for Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Hypotheses have tended to focus on one or a combination of three elements: power, policy, and ideology. The chronology of events suggests that the Great Cultural Revolution may be viewed as an attempt by Mao to push China toward new and unprecedented heights of faith and fervor. Mao's increasingly utopian aspirations and fundamentalist concepts of the revolutionary mission were manifest in the 1966 reorganization of leadership. Instability seems destined to continue so long as Mao and those designated by the Cultural Revolution to succeed him dominate the scene.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0675158

Entities

People

  • W. F. Dorrill

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Communism
  • Economic Systems
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Market Economy
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Money
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Students
  • Terrorists
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.