Post Cultural Revolution Hardliner
After the death of Mao, Economic Reform began under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Hu Qiaomu was one its most prominent opponents. Hu and Deng Liqun, another hard-line leader in the propaganda department, made every effort to fight against reform, with efforts such as the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign in 1983 mainly targeted against critics of the Cultural Revolution and the Anti-Bourgeois Liberalization Campaign in 1987 which essentially targeted reformers. Hu Qiaomu and Deng Liqun were instrumental in the ousters of the liberal general secretaries Hu Yaobang, and Zhao Ziyang, by winning Deng Xiaoping to their side. Hu Qiaomu applauded the use of force against the students in 1989, and called for stricter political indoctrination.
Efforts of the hardliners like Hu Qiaomu, were finally put to an end, at least in economics, by Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in the spring of 1992. Hu Qiaomu died later that year, in September, at the age of 81.
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