1976, when he died.
It ended when Mao Zedong died, which was 1976.
Mao Zedong believed that the working class would drive a Chinese revolution. He also believed that Communism was the best way to achieve the revolution's end goals.
Because he was responsible for all of the disaster, famine and fall of China after the Great Leap forward which ended badly.
At first, the Chinese thought it was a great idea that everyone got treated fairly. In the end, Mao died and Deng Xiaoping become the leader and everyone loved him. A word of advice, read "Mao's Last Dancer".
Mao Zedong's Long March ended in October 1935 when 8000 of the original 80,000 marchers reached Shaanxi Province.
Mao Zedong preached a philosophy that appealed to China's poor. (He promised to end oppression from landlords and government officials, etc.)
In 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, marking the end of a prolonged civil war between the Communist Party of China and the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). This event signified the beginning of communist rule in China, with Mao as its founding leader. The PRC aimed to reshape Chinese society through land reforms, industrialization, and the promotion of socialist ideologies. Mao's leadership would significantly impact China's political landscape and its relations with the world in the subsequent decades.
China became independent on 1st of October, 1949. At the end of Chinese civil war, Mao Zedong was in control of most parts of mainland China. He was the leader of the Communist party.
The formation of the People's Republic of China was declared by Mao Zedong on October 1, 1949. This announcement took place during a ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, marking the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of communist rule in China. Mao's declaration symbolized a significant shift in the country's political landscape following years of conflict.
The Cultural Revolution in China was initiated by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party, in 1966. It aimed to reinforce communist ideology by removing capitalist, traditional, and cultural elements from Chinese society. Mao sought to reassert his control and mobilize the youth, leading to widespread social and political upheaval throughout the country until its official end in 1976.
This is a highly subjective question. Many Chinese harbor a mix of both admiration and disdain for Mao Zedong, believing that he did the country a great deal of good by ending the corrupt rule of the Kuomintang, reforming the feudal system of land ownership, and ending the last vestiges of imperialist control over Mainland China. In this, he has become more of a figure of Chinese nationalism than one of international Socialist revolution. However, the catastrophes of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution can be laid at his feet. As one ambivalent man once told me, "Mao was clearly a great man, as only a great man can make the sort of mistakes that he did!" My personal judgment is that China today is, in some respects, slightly better off because of Mao and the CCP than it would be today if the KMT had won the civil war, and slightly worse off in others.