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Author Davin, Delia

Title Mao Zedong
Published New York : The History Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (106 pages)
Series Pocket biographies
Pocket biographies.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Childhood and Formative Years; 2. Labour Organizer and Party Worker; 3. The Jiangxi Soviet Republic and the Long March; 4. The North-West; 5. The Communist Party Takes Power; 6. The Great Leap Forward and its Aftermath; 7. The Cultural Revolution; 8. Old Age and Death; 9. Mao's Legacies; Notes; Bibliography
Summary Mao Zedong, first chairman of the People's Republic of China, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, and the architect of the Cultural Revolution, was active in Chinese politics for most of his eightytwo years, and became one of the most important revolutionary figures in the twentieth century. He spent the 1920s and 1930s struggling to build the Chinese Communist Party. After the establishment of the People's Republic, he strove to impose his vision of socialism on his impoverished country, convinced that if the power of the people could be harnessed, China could become an econom
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Subject Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
SUBJECT Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 fast (OCoLC)fst00028307
Subject Heads of state -- China -- Biography
Asian history.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Heads of state.
SUBJECT China -- History -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024122
Subject China.
Genre/Form History
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780752473963
0752473964