Essay Outline

Essay Question

“The Cultural Revolution was truly a power struggle to control the future of the Chinese revolution.”

To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Keywords

• “Cultural Revolution”: 1966-1976, historical time
  • consider various phases of the Cultural Revolution and the accompanying changes
• “truly”: in essence? Indeed?
• “power struggle”: aims/motivation; character of the C.R. and changing times
  • Cultural Revolution aimed to do the following:
    • make China a politically and economically strong nation
    • ensure Chinese sovereignty and independence, especially over foreigners
    • etc.?
      • to cement and protect Mao’s legacy?
      • remove political foes?
• define:
  • “power struggle”
    • assumes a weakening of Chinese political power, especially w.r.t Mao
  • “control”
  • “future of”
  • “the Chinese revolution”
    • what is the Chinese revolution? Is it for the good of Chinese society?
  • “future of the Chinese revolution”: path to Chinese socialism, with imprint of Maoism
    • ideological + political + socialism? Economist social + cultural