Reining In The Gang Of Four

Question 1

What marginalised the Gang of Four?

Answer 1

PLA’s power
The fall-out from the Lin Biao affair- moderate policies and others in Party leadership questioning if CR had gone too far so reluctant to risk further radical initiatives

Question 2

What did the Gang of Four use as an umbrella term to attack Zhou and Deng and boycott of Western twch?

Answer 2

Anti-Confucius

Question 3

Why did Mao take away his backing of Gang?

Answer 3

Became clear they were more concerned with jockeying for position in the succession struggle than with promoting continuous revolution

Question 4

What did the lowkey memorial service for Zhou turn into 1976?

Answer 4

Huge demonstration in Tiananmen Square in favour of his moderate policies and attacking Gang of Four, bloody and violent

Question 5

What showed that the radical extremists still had some power?

Answer 5

The Politburo blamed Deng for organising the Tianamen Square Incident and dismissed him from his post as Party Secretary

Question 6

What puts the Gang of Four’s declining influence into perspective?

Answer 6

The fact that the demonstrations took place at all and was so vehemently critical of the radicals