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Causes
- With the failure of the great leap forward, mao's reputation and standing in the party was damaged.
- In 1962 President Liu Shaoqui and General Secretary Deng Xiaoping were invited to take over and correct the damage.
- Their Solution
- Restoration of capitalist system
- Admission that communism had failed
- Mao worried about their threat within the party
- Regretted giving up Chairmanship in 1958
- Regretted making less public appearances after 1958
- Wu Han Crackdown
- Play set in early dynasty
- Called The dismissal of Hai Rai from office
- Story about a courageous government official and his defiance of a corrupt dictator
Solution
- Compiled little red book
- Politicised army
- Prescribed for every school and curriculum.
- Slogan "Learn from the PLA"
- Necessary to have it with you all the time
- 1963 Diary of Lei Feng
- Truck driver
- Socialist Martyr
- Fabricated
- Jiang Qing urges action against opponents
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