NOUN
- 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
How To Use Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution In A Sentence
- For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao's China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring.
- There will be no celebration tomorrow of the Great Leap Forward, the Anti-Rightist Movement or the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
- The thorough exposure and smashing of this counter- revolutionary clique in the great proletarian cultural revolution is an immense new victory for Mao Tse - tung's thought.
- He describes how it was to live through the Great Leap Forward as a child as well as living through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
