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The Red Guards and the World Student Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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Prior to the onset of the Cultural Revolution, few analysts of the Asian scene had the prescience to perceive even the outline of the impending cataclysm. So universal was this failure that weeks were to pass before articles began to appear giving hindsight analysis concerning the surprising development of events. Even these reports often failed to grasp how completely the maelstrom had seized in its grasp both the Communist Party and some of its most eminent leaders.
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