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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a look at China's Cultural Revolution, Mao's attempt to pull China away from its deep-rooted traditions and thrust it into the modern era by means of violence and chaos Commercial Air Travel: https://youtu.be/fqVtEa5ooJ0 Reykjavik Summit 1986: https://youtu.be/xmDHy4M7rdM Saturday Morning Cartoons: https://youtu.be/hPToTKCcycI The Profumo Affair: https://youtu.be/PfQ-FY3zPdM Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #China #PRC #culturalrevolution #Mao #ccp **SOURCES** Gao, Mobo C. F. 2008. The Battle for China’s Past : Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Pluto Press. Yan, Jiaqi, Gao Gao, and D. W. Y. Kwok. 1996. Turbulent Decade : A History of the Cultural Revolution. University of Hawai’i Press. https://doi.org/10.21313/9780824865313. Walder, Andrew G. 2019. Agents of Disorder : Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/londonschoolecons/detail.action?docID=6033419. Feng, Jicai. 1996. Ten Years of Madness : Oral Histories of China’s Cultural Revolution. 1st ed. China Books & Periodicals. Wu, Yiching. 2014. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins : Chinese Socialism in Crisis. Harvard University Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/londonschoolecons/detail.action?docID=3301467. Leese, Daniel. 2013. Mao Cult : Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution. Cambridge University Press. Mittler, Barbara. 2012. A Continuous Revolution : Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. Harvard University Asia Center. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/londonschoolecons/detail.action?docID=6407406. Cook, Alexander C. 2016. The Cultural Revolution on Trial : Mao and the Gang of Four. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511980411. Barnouin, Barbara, and Yu Changgen. 2010. Ten Years of Turbulence : The Chinese Cultural Revolution. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203038437. Kraus, Richard Curt, and EBSCOhost. 2012. The Cultural Revolution : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=406021.