"thought reform" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} thought reform (uncountable)
  1. Individual ideological indoctrination, especially that conducted in Communist China under Mao Zedong. Tags: uncountable
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          "ref": "2012, Aminda M. Smith, Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes, page 1:",
          "text": "Stuart Schram, one of Mao Zedong's most astute analysts, argued that Maoism's characteristic faith in thought reform was born of the CCP's dependence on rootless wanderers with questionable loyalties.",
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