Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in The Cultural Revolution.
Paramilitary units of radicalised youth, mostly students, mobilised by Mao Zedong in 1966 to act as the vanguard of the Cultural Revolution.
Red Guards appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Mao’s China, especially The Cultural Revolution and Red Guards and Terror.
Mao’s China
The Cultural Revolution • Red Guards and Terror
Mao’s China
The Cultural Revolution • Reasons for Revolution
Mao’s China
Establishing Communist Rule • Consolidating Power
Russia and the Soviet Union
The Bolsheviks in Power • Moves Towards Totalitarianism
Russia and the Soviet Union
The Revolutions of 1917 • Bolshevik Revolution
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