Red Guards, in Chinese history, politically active students of the Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution, 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong in an attempt to prevent the development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of Communism.
..... Click the link for more information. (1966–69), who organized units to carry out Mao Zedong Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung , 1893–1976, founder of the People's Republic of China. Mao was one of the most prominent Communist theoreticians and his ideas on revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare have been extremely influential,
..... Click the link for more information. 's aim of rerevolutionizing Chinese society. As their numbers grew, the units engaged in factional struggles, and in 1968 Mao suppressed the movement.

Red Guards

Paramilitary units of radical university and high-school students formed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Responding in 1966 to Mao Zedong's call to revitalize the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese Communist Party, they went so far as to attempt to purge the country of its pre-Communist culture. With a membership in the millions, they attacked and persecuted local party leaders, schoolteachers, and other intellectuals. By early 1967 they had overthrown party authorities in many localities. Internal strife ensued as different units argued over which among them best represented Maoism. In 1968 their disruption of industrial production and urban life led the government to redirect them to the countryside, where the movement gradually subsided.

Red Guards

(Chinese, hung-wei-ping), secondary-school and university students who belonged to detachments formed in 1966, during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, for use against Mao Tsetung’s opponents. The Red Guards worked in conjunction with the tsao-fan (see). The Red Guard movement subsided in 1968.

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The Dalai Lama fled to India, and for at least a decade things became a lot worse: many Tibetans -- possibly more than a million -- starved to death during Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward campaign, temples and monasteries were smashed, sometimes by Tibetan Red Guards, during the Cultural Revolution, and a large number of people died in the violence.

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