➡️ Thanks to Emma Sleep for supporting the creation of this video! https://urlr.me/hT9Lt ➡️ Improve your sleep with Emma mattresses and accessories, and enjoy 50% off sitewide + an additional 10% with the code QUESTIONS ++++++++++++++++++++ In 1966, Mao Zedong was politically isolated. After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, which caused a huge famine and millions of deaths, many senior Chinese Communist Party officials increasingly openly criticized him. But Mao, enjoying an aura and a cult of personality skillfully constructed by propaganda, prepared his counterattack. He mobilized the country's youth and ordered them to carry out their own "revolution". The Red Guards, youth organizations wearing a red armband, crisscrossed the country and arrested anyone suspected of revisionism. The situation quickly gets out of hand for Mao Zedong... let's go back to this Cultural Revolution that almost plunged China into civil war. ++++++++++++++++++++ ???? Come and test your historical knowledge for free and compete against other players on Chronica, the application developed with several History YouTubers! ➡️ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... ➡️ IOS: https://apps.apple.com/cm/app/chronic... ➡️ Website: https://www.dtda.fr/fr/chronica.html ++++++++++++++++++++ ➤Tipeee: http://bit.ly/2vd6Om1 ➤KissKissBankBank: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/p... ➤TikTok: / questions_dhistoire ➤Instagram: / questionsdhistoire ➤Facebook: / questiondhistoire ➤Twitter: / questiondhisto1 ➤Youtube: http://bit.ly/1WsHn5a ++++++++++++++++++++ ???? Bibliographic sources: Merle Goldman, Histoire from China: from its origins to the present day, Tallandier, 2019 Jean-Luc Domenach. China: Volume 1 & 2, Seuil, 1995 Song Yongyi, The Massacres of the Cultural Revolution, Folio Documents, 2009 Jung Chang, Mao, the Unknown History, Folio Histoire, 2021 ++++++++++++++++++++ ???? Internet links: The Cultural Revolution: History of a Lost Generation: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinte... The Cultural Revolution: https://books.openedition.org/puv/762... The Red Guards: Rebels under the Influence: https://journals.openedition.org/conf... ++++++++++++++++++++ ???? Music credits: Ryūichi Sakamoto - The Last Emperor OST Civilization V OST John Corigliano – The Red Violin OST Tan Dun – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon OST Sound effects: Freesound.org ++++++++++++++++++++ ???? Video credits: Mao, a Chinese Story (2006): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502738 The Secret Camps of Chinese Power (2023): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27206654 ++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks for watching! 00:00 - Introduction 01:06 – Emma Matelas Partnership 03:37 – The Chinese Civil War 07:39 – First Five-Year Plan 11:07 – The Great Leap Forward 17:06 – Mao's Counterattack 18:47 – The Proletarian Cultural Revolution 23:43 – Return to Order and Power Struggles 26:03 – Mao's Death and the Trial of the Gang of Four 28:08 - Outro