CULTURAL REVOLUTION

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 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)

Sense 1

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:

Cathay; 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)