CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does Cultural Revolution mean? • CULTURAL REVOLUTION (noun)
The noun CULTURAL REVOLUTION has 1 sense:
1. a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
Familiarity information: CULTURAL REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CULTURAL REVOLUTION (noun)
Meaning:
A radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
Cultural Revolution; Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Hypernyms ("Cultural Revolution" is a kind of...):
revolution (a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving)
Domain region:
China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
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