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Cultural Revolution Impacts - Coggle Diagram
Cultural Revolution Impacts
After
Workers and policies
The changes
Just one small change that lasted, elimination of bonuses
The demands
control of production
abolition of contract workers
elimination of bonuses
freedom to choose where you will are assigned to work
egalitarian system
elimination of party controlled trade unions
Rustification
Peasants perspective:
“Up to the mountain and down to the countryside'' movement
Mao’s trust in the masses and and the idea that one could be reformed by doing peasant work
Contributed to a social and economic gains (especially in the last 7 years of the 10 year cultural revolution)
There was less chaos in the large cities which and the economy was generally doing better
Not primarily “criminals” but rather people who followed Mao, but not in the desired way
displaced 17 million "rightists and deviationists" students into the countryside BUT
cultural revolution was mainly an urban movement BUT
Intellectuals/students perspective
17 million students were displaced to the countryside from 1967 to 76 with the rustication program.
"The lost generation"
No museums
No writers
No movies
It was not for those who wanted only, they where forced to go
Impacts on maintenance of power
Reasserted into only the hands of Mao
Major changes to social and political life of China
Allowed for the introduction of many more egalitarian socioeconomic ideas (though this was not the initial aim of the revolution)
Mitigate elitism rather than reform the entire socio political system.
Mao reversed many of the “Liuist” policies
What were the Liuist policies?
Put in place in Chinas "Great Leap forward" they were capitalist (NEP reference), increasing growth of the bureaucracy.
The survivors of the cultural revolution would shape the future of the political concerns and consciousness in both the Mao and Deng era.
Students and education
In 1975 Deng Xiaoping stated, “Out of the 150,000 scientific and technical cadres in the Academy of Sciences, no one dares go into the research laboratories.”
By the mid-1970s college enrollments were only about one-third of what they had been a decade before.
the closest thing of bourgeois to the masses in society where bourgeois no longer existed
homes ransacked
books and writings bruned
physically and mentally abused
sent to prison and labour camps
family and themselves shamed
Irony
intelectuals
they where the ones who initiated it
beaurocracy
One of the goals was to minimize the party bureaucracy which was not optimized and slow in making changes, they did the opposite.
In 1969 government officials were reduced from 60 000 to 10 000 but 95% were reinstated by 1970.
they also added million of new members to swell the party
overall
Mao promoted the idea of small communist comune yet did the opposite during this time
Mao favored military-dominated communities, such as in 1967 with the rejection of Shanghai commune for a military one.
workers pushing the most for changes to not happen