The Great Transformation: China's Road From Revolution to Reform

Later, he even called it “the first Marxist-Leninist document in the whole country.”2 By mid-1966 Mao had begun a large-scale purge of the leadership of the Communist Party at all levels. But was the reform era, and the changes that led to it, also conditioned by the Cultural Revolution in different ways? Schoenhals, Michael. “The 1978 Truth Criterion Controversy.” China Quarterly, no.