I propose to conduct a comparative study on the Holocaust and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (the Cultural Revolution on the second mention) mainly in terms of their backgrounds, motifs and historical influences, and conclude by evaluating the degree these two caused devastation to human civilization.
Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two mass murders, the former being pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, the latter being purging of dissenters, or cultural cleansing, took place on two continents as the modern forms of violence They share striking similarities and differences. The following …show more content…
While Holocaust was a means by the Aryan radicals to purify the European races, the Cultural Revolution unquestioning was a political maneuver to shore up Mao’s ruling status in the CPC. It is conspicuous signs that Map has fashioned a cult of personality to glorify himself and enlist support from the iconoclast rebels such that all opponents of the “people” were blasted heavily.
While the Holocaust is horrifying in the sense that it slaughtered humoring beings with apocalyptic concentration camps, poisonous gases and mass shooting that are completed in the hands of the military personnel, the Cultural Revolution took a primitive form of using public humiliation and building a cult of personality of President Mao to promote revolutionaries’ unity against the enemies by ushering in mass movements of the people.
I believe it is worth reviewing the two forms of violence on a comparative basis, with the help of academic studies and oral histories on these subjects topic worldwide. There is rich and relevant literature in the forms of books, reviews, essays, articles, excerpts of documents, recordings, speeches, oral narratives, films, and other available sources either on the Internet or in the public libraries. Authors and speakers of the sources are diverse in …show more content…
Coursera, and edX, the principal online educators, supply me with ample courses like The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World; professors’ courses will provide valuable sources of the event’s aims, courses and damage, enriching my work with accuracy and details in relevant historical
Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two mass murders, the former being pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, the latter being purging of dissenters, or cultural cleansing, took place on two continents as the modern forms of violence They share striking similarities and differences. The following …show more content…
While Holocaust was a means by the Aryan radicals to purify the European races, the Cultural Revolution unquestioning was a political maneuver to shore up Mao’s ruling status in the CPC. It is conspicuous signs that Map has fashioned a cult of personality to glorify himself and enlist support from the iconoclast rebels such that all opponents of the “people” were blasted heavily.
While the Holocaust is horrifying in the sense that it slaughtered humoring beings with apocalyptic concentration camps, poisonous gases and mass shooting that are completed in the hands of the military personnel, the Cultural Revolution took a primitive form of using public humiliation and building a cult of personality of President Mao to promote revolutionaries’ unity against the enemies by ushering in mass movements of the people.
I believe it is worth reviewing the two forms of violence on a comparative basis, with the help of academic studies and oral histories on these subjects topic worldwide. There is rich and relevant literature in the forms of books, reviews, essays, articles, excerpts of documents, recordings, speeches, oral narratives, films, and other available sources either on the Internet or in the public libraries. Authors and speakers of the sources are diverse in …show more content…
Coursera, and edX, the principal online educators, supply me with ample courses like The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World; professors’ courses will provide valuable sources of the event’s aims, courses and damage, enriching my work with accuracy and details in relevant historical