“The preface of the Cultural Revolution began when Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing started to criticize intellectualism” (Galduroz, Michael). “Zedong’s aim was to purge his party, the government, and the military of people he suspected were not totally committed to his political ideas” (Michael Schoenhals). China was going through an economic crisis and Mao Zedong was trying to bring China back up to its feet. He started with what he called the Great Leap Forward; it was an economic plan that made everyone basically farm in their own backyards to raise the economy up. When this failed he decided that he needed to switch to Communism, and make his own culture that everyone in China had to follow. When he proposed this many people went against him because they didn’t want to be Communist and didn’t want to change their culture. Then when he really went over the line he started executing people that went against him, which led to somewhere between 45 to 75 million deaths. The Cause
“The preface of the Cultural Revolution began when Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing started to criticize intellectualism” (Galduroz, Michael). “Zedong’s aim was to purge his party, the government, and the military of people he suspected were not totally committed to his political ideas” (Michael Schoenhals). China was going through an economic crisis and Mao Zedong was trying to bring China back up to its feet. He started with what he called the Great Leap Forward; it was an economic plan that made everyone basically farm in their own backyards to raise the economy up. When this failed he decided that he needed to switch to Communism, and make his own culture that everyone in China had to follow. When he proposed this many people went against him because they didn’t want to be Communist and didn’t want to change their culture. Then when he really went over the line he started executing people that went against him, which led to somewhere between 45 to 75 million deaths. 
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