Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung listen (help·info), and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political theorist. The founding father o
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution,…
On the death of Lenin on January 21, 1924, Stalin's first move on that sad day was to dictate a telegram: “Convey this message to Comrade Trotsky. Comrade Lenin passed away at 6:50, January 21. Cause of death: shutdown of the respiratory system. Stalin.” Some Soviet Union leaders ...
Mao could not have survived and prospered among the ruins of his policies and the death of his people — almost 38 million were estimated to have died during the Great Leap Forward — without the craven complicity of those he terrorised from the early years in Yenan to the end of his life...
One notable incident was the death of Emily Davison, who stepped in front of a horse belonging to King George V at the Epsom Derby in 1913. The horse also died, of course: we English are not always animal-lovers. It was part of a general campaign of intolerable behaviour by a small ...
1. Big Business For the three decades between 1949—when Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China—and 1979, when Deng Xiaoping and his allies in the government ousted the ultraleft Gang of Four and began reforming the economy—the dominant and singula...