| Noun | 1. | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaosrevolution - a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution" | |