Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution (TRIH ep 173)
1966 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History features Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Professor Rana Mitter about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. They set the scene from the posters in August 1966 and the Red Guards’ attacks on the “four olds,” moving through the preceding decades: foreign incursions, the war with Japan, civil war and the Communist victory in 1949, and the catastrophic Great Leap Forward. Mitter explains Mao Zedong’s motivations — ideological conviction, fear of revisi...
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- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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