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Bookmark or Share- Red Guards | Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong & Student ActivismRed Guards, in Chinese history, groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
- Red Guards - WikipediaThe Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted. According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows:
- China’s Cultural Revolution, Explained - The New York TimesWho were the Red Guards? Students who answered Mao’s call for continuing revolution, Red Guards formed large groups that targeted political enemies for abuse and public humiliation. Sometimes...
- From Red Guards to Thinking Individuals: China's Youth in the Cultural ...Red Guard groups in middle schools, formed by those from senior cadre and working class families, became the dominant force in the Chairman’s rebellion against the Party establishment he had once encouraged and now wished to destroy. In August and September 1966, “red terror” seized China.
- The Cultural Revolution: all you need to know about China's political ...Gangs of students and Red Guards attacked people wearing “bourgeois clothes” on the street, “imperialist” signs were torn down and intellectuals and party officials were murdered or driven to...
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