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
Had China after Mao continued with Maoist policies after his death, and had they continued to achieve about the same success, then such a China would still be an economic giant, though not as much as it is in history as it actually happened. And of course such a China would have remaine...
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 ...