What does Cultural Revolution mean?
• CULTURAL REVOLUTION (noun) The noun CULTURAL REVOLUTION has 1 sense: 1. 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 chaos Familiarity information: CULTURAL REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.