The Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) was a large scale political campaign launched by Mao Zedong. Afraid of China‘s heading for the so-called revisionist road, which was alien to the orthodox Marxist doctrine, Mao gathered a bloc of radicals to aid him in his attack on the leadership of the Communist Party. Law-and-order was shattered. The whole country was in complete upheaval. Good-willed as the intent might seem, the CR turned out to be a nightmare in the history of China‘s development. Official Chinese Communist Party documents termed it as a colossal mistake which is in no conformity with revolution in any sense of the word.