The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
A. enabled Mao to regain control of the party after the disastrous Great Leap Forward.
B. attempted to use conservative party members to "cleanse" China of "impure socialist elements."
C. created an academically more demanding curriculum in schools which stressed cogent thought and scientific training.
D. fostered literacy in rural China.
E. was directed mainly against middle-class Soviet technicians working in China.
Answer: A
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