Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his de...
The other problem, at least for the New Right elements who currently dominate thinking in the USA and Britain, is that China has done this in flat defiance of everything that the New Right insists on as a necessity for economic progress. The things they have intimidated the centre and left...
Mao Zedong, aka Chairman Mao, founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ruled the country with an iron fist until his death in 1976. ©Howstuffworks Key Takeaways Mao Zedong used controversial methods to transform China into a superpower. His rule was marked by disastrous policies...
How did Mao Zedong came to power? Mao Zedong: Between 1927 and 1949, China was a divided country undergoing a bloody civil war. Chiang Kai-shek and his ruling Nationalist Party fought Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in an attempt to try and stay in power. ...
Why did Mao’s awful rule prevail for so long? How did China come to be one vast torture chamber, as foreign minister Chen Yi called it, during the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution? The book reminds us that Mao supplied his own answer, when he described himself as ‘a man without law or...
Mao Zedong , also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theories, military stra...