Chinese Revolution Overview: The great proletarian cultural revolution;1945-1952, was a period of chaos, with the activity of red guards and the movement to revitalize the principle revolutionary values of the Communist Party in the mid-1960s. Mao’s widespread Maoism influenced many people, many had died and suffered. It was a period of darkness, teachers were being thrown off buildings, no study took place at all. Even so, Mao still saved China and changed it into the great society we live in today.