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GCSE History · key term
Old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits: the categories of traditional life targeted during the Cultural Revolution.
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Paper 3
Revise: Red Guards and TerrorMao portrayed these ‘four olds’ as supports for an oppressive old society which should be replaced by a new communist culture.
Old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits: the targets of a destructive campaign during the Cultural Revolution.
Paper 1
Old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits: the influences targeted for destruction during the Cultural Revolution.
Revise: Origins of the Cultural Revolution & Mao’s Cult of PersonalityThe Cultural Revolution extended this effort. Its attack on the Four Olds — old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits — aimed to make revolutionary change permanent by removing the influences that might reverse it.
Old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits: categories attacked during the Cultural Revolution as obstacles to a new Communist society.
Name all four olds: old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits.
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