... Revolution began as a campaign to root out the bourgeois influences in art and literature. In spring of 1966, it broadened to deal with bourgeois influences among the intellectuals in general. The Cultural Revolution was inspired by Mao. He felt that China was beginning to look like a version of the Russian revolution ... and he felt the fundamental goals of the revolution were being abandoned. He wanted to cut down the power ... and privileges that the ruling elite in China possessed. The goals of the Cultural Revolution were for China to have a prosperous economic ... in revolutionary...

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... China. At the age of 18 she started working as a peasant in the fields for four years during Mao's Cultural Revolution. It was there that she learned the ways of the working class. Shortly after, Liu returned to Beijing to study a Russian Social Realist style which required precise and hard-edged lines. This style prevented Liu from her sensibility as an artist ... ...

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... . Their request was denied, precipitating the May Fourth Movement, which grew out of a student uprising in China. The movement's leaders demanded modernization through educational reform and were attracted by the Russian Revolution, which appeared to be more successful than the homegrown version in bringing change. In 1920 the student leaders formed the Comintern (Communist International). A young man named Mao Zedong led one ... ...

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