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Mao's “Cultural Revolution”: Origin and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Philip Bridgham
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Mao Tse-Tung utilised the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution to lecture delegates attending the Moscow Communist Party Conference on the correct method for dealing with erring comrades. Mao appeared to be offering his formula “unity-criticismunity” to other Bloc parties as a substitute for the violence and terror inherent in Stalin's periodic purging of the Soviet party. At the same time, Mao appeared to be giving assurances that Stalin's errors connected with the “cult of personality” could not possibly develop within the Chinese party.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 29 , January 1967 , pp. 1 - 35
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1967

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