Mao and his supporters came to power with great hopes and promises for the Chinese people. Yet the record of Mao and his Communist Party proved disappointing. What were their failures and what changed the direction of China that finally brought back economic hope?
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Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the CCP.
Some 1.5 million people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and millions of others suffered imprisonment, seizure of property, torture or general humiliation.
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