People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 13 Military command 9 Security, intelligence and policing 3 Diplomacy and international organization 2 Economy, finance and planning 2 Agriculture and land policy 1 Ideology and propaganda 5 Scholarship and theory 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any People’s Republic of China state institutions 24 Communist Party of China 22 Kuomintang 1 Comintern 1

All 4 affiliations

China

Communist Party of China 22 Kuomintang 1 People’s Republic of China state institutions 24

International organizations

Comintern 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 25
Citizenship
Any China 25
Background
Any China 25
Era(set)
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 147 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 280 People of the Stalin era1929–1953 459 People of the thaw and the stagnation1953–1985 397 The last generation1985–1991 220

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 9 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 20 People of the Mao era1949–1976 25 The reform generation1976–현재 12

People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era

The Revolution and the Napoleonic era1774–1830 53

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 57 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 461 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 385 Scholars of this history1892–현재 155
People of the Mao era 1949–1976

Wang Hongwen

王洪文
People’s Republic of China state institutions Chinese communism China China 1935–1992 ↓ Arrested 1976 · illness

The Shanghai worker-rebel who rose “like a helicopter” to party vice-chairman, youngest of the Gang of Four

The youngest of the Gang of Four: from a Shanghai mill's militia office he led the November 1966 rebel headquarters and the 1967 Shanghai Commune, was second-ranked CCP vice-chairman by 38, and was seized in the 6 October 1976 coup.

From Jilin, he fought in the Korean War and became a security cadre at a Shanghai cotton mill. In 1966 he led the worker-rebel “Workers’ General Headquarters”, the driving force of the “January Storm” that seized the Shanghai government in 1967, and ran the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee with Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan. Picked by Mao as a successor of worker origin, he became party vice-chairman at the Tenth Congress in 1973, mocked as a “helicopter” for his rapid, inexperienced rise. Arrested with the Gang of Four in October 1976, he was sentenced to life in 1981 and died of liver disease in custody in 1992.

Career timeline
  • 1967–1976Vice-chairman of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
  • 1973–1976Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee