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
Mao Zedong - Chinese Revolution, Communism, Chairman: Nevertheless, when the communists did take power in China, both Mao and Stalin had to make the best of the situation. In December 1949 Mao, now chairman of the People’s Republic of China—which he ha
Mao Zedong - Cultural Revolution, China, Communism: The movement that became known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an attempt by Mao to go beyond the party rectification campaigns—of which there had been many since 1942—and to
Trotsky's posthumous reputation continued to improve in China and, in 1999, he earned this footnote in Volume 6 of Selected Writings of Mao Zedong:“Trotsky (1879-1940) was a member of the politburo of the Bolsheviks and chairman of the Petrograd Soviet during the October Revolution. He was...