What Was China's Cultural Revolution?

It had nothing to do with "culture." It was a bloodbath perpetrated, at least initially, by indoctrinated Mao kids who were following the orders of their revered, power-mad leader; later on, these same students were rubbed out. 

This CBC radio doc provides a good summary of the horrors that unfolded for the sake of re-empowering a sociopathic tyrant.