Eventos
April: Mao's infamous "Little Red Book" begins publication.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/
October: China becomes the world's fifth nuclear power.Mao's "Little Red Book" continues being distributed to the youth and working class.May: The Communist Party of China (CCP) proclaims the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
June: First organized Red Guard brigade formed, party calls for the purging of all "imperialists."
August: Zedong and the party continue the call for purging rightists and a mass revolution.
September: More than a thousand people are murdered or forced to suicide by the Red Guard in Shanghai.
August-November: Tiananmen Square receives estimated 11 million Red Guards on eight different occasions.January: Biao and Jianq Qing initiate "January Storm," the purging of Shanghai officials.
July: Insurrections erupt in big cities.October: Liu Shaoqi resigns from all political posts under pressure from Red Guards.
December: Mao starts "Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside" re-education initiative,
relocating many youths to rural areas.
(Propaganda for the "Up to the Mountains,
Down to the Countryside"
re-education initiative)April: Mao declares the active phase of the Cultural Revolution officially over.Períodos
The Cultural RevolutionReestablishing stability post-Revolution to Zedong's Death in 1976
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