China’s Cultural Revolution– Goals and Purpose

An economic ideology which blends some elements of capitalism with other systems.

• socialism

• capitalism

• Neo-capitalism

• communism

A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.

• revolutionary

• cadre

• revisionist

• circumvent

A group of activists in a communist or other revolutionary organization.

• neo-classicist

• revisionist

• cadre

• echelon

A social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class.

• cadre

• proletariat

• communist

• bourgeoisie

Which of the following were some of the reasons for Mao's cultural revolution? (Select all that apply)

• rve himself in power for the rest of his life by removing all possible sources of opposition

• to obliterate the damaging record of the failure of the Great Leap Forward

• to break the power of the urban bureaucrats and restore the peasant character of China's Communist revolution.

• to break the power of the urban bureaucrats and restore the peasant character of China's Communist revolution.

The Cultural Revolution attempted to impose strict limits on freedom of expression to ensure that culture served the revolution and that 'anti-socialist, poisonous weeds' were eradicated.

• True

• False

Mao had denounced the 'Four Olds'.

Which of the following was NOT one of the 4 olds?

• Old people

• Old Ideas

• Old culture

• Old customs

Since feudal and ​ (a)   art forms have no place in a socialist society, allowing them to be published or performed would ​ (b)   belief in Socialism and threaten the very foundations of the new ​ (c)   . It was therefore necessary, according to Jiang Qing, to completely eradicate all ​ (d)   , bourgeois and foreign ​ (e)   in Chinese culture and replace them with a truly 'proletarian culture’.

• bourgeois
• undermine
• China
• feudal
• influences