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China’s Cultural Revolution topples Mao’s grip on power
The piece analyzes Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution as a power struggle within the Chinese Communist leadership. It notes Lin Piao and Teng Hsiao-ping as rivals to Mao while Chou En-Lai faces critique, with a split between elder hard-liners and younger reform-minded leaders over Russia relations and US ties. It argues civil war is unlikely but presents a decisive test of Mao’s peasants vs cities theory.
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Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
China
Bamboo Curtain
Red Guards
Chen
Lin Shao-chi
Teng Hsiao-ping
Chou En-Lai
Chou
Lin Piao
Russia
America