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Cultural revolution

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966–1976). historical

    "Since the Cultural Revolution, in particular since the movement to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, party organizations at all levels in Shensi have attached importance to cultivating new cadres."

  2. 2
    Iran's Cultural Revolution of 1980–1983. historical
  3. 3
    Any reform movement in which a national government aims to radically change its country's political, social, economical, and cultural values. broadly

    "First, they came for Seuss. Then, Ook and Gluk. The Cultural Revolution in our midst."

Noun
  1. 1
    a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos wordnet

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 文化大革命 (Wénhuà Dà Gémìng).

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