In short, this essay will study key influences on the development of the understanding of the question- What motivated Mao to instigate the Cultural Revolution? ... MacFarquhar asserts that the Cultural Revolution was a struggle to maintain the spirit of Chinese Socialism, and to avoid, what Mao had interpreted as the degradation seen on the revisionist path taken by Soviet Russia. ... Origins of the Cultural Revolution, which downplays any self-centred motivation on the part of Mao as the minor influence of "resentment" towards his overly ambitious colleagues, is an analysis of the Cultural...

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