China’s Cultural Revolution– Mao and the Cult of Personality

Personality cults ​ (a)   the achievements and ​ (b)   of one leader above others. They are formed by a barrage of ​ (c)   , symbolism and imagery, ​ (d)   information and distorted history.

• glorify
• importance
• propaganda
• manipulated

Often treated as a revolutionary, an activist rather than a philosopher, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Chen Boda

Founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Chen Boda

A Soviet revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Chen Boda

A Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist who rose to power as the chief interpreter of Maoism in the first 20 years of the People's Republic of China.

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Karl Marx

• Chen Boda

A  form of communism developed by Mao Tse Tung. It is a doctrine to capture State power through a combination of armed insurgency, mass mobilization and strategic alliances.

• Maoism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Maoism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

Mao’s achievements were ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   while his shortcomings were ​ (c)   or ​ (d)  

• exaggerated
• glorified
• suppressed
• concealed.

A economic and political system where most property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state (rather than individual citizens)

• Maoism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

A economic and political system where all citizens share equally in economic resources as allocated by a democratically-elected government.

• Maoism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism