Mao Tse Tung

Mao Zedong pronunciation was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao Zedong is considered to be the father of Communist China and along side Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek played a fundamental part in China's recent history. In 1921, he co-founded the Chinese Communist Party. Mao gave a geographic slant to Marxism as he felt that within an Asiatic society, communists had to concentrate on the countryside rather than the industrial towns. In reality, this was a logical belief as China had very little industry but many millions involved with agriculture. Mao believed that a revolutionary elite would only be found in the peasantry and not among those who worked in towns.

Adolf Hitler and Chairman Mao were both ruthless dictators who were responsible for millions of deaths, and in addition, both created what is known as a "cult of personality" by which they took on an obsessive or god-like role within their nations. Hitler was the fuhrer, and Mao was the "great helmsman". Both succeeded in convincing their foolish followers that they had magnificent and unparalleled leadership ability and wisdom, when the reality was that both brought ruin to their countries.

Official Communist biographies make much of the trials and tribulations Mao had to face before the Communist party took power in October, 1949. In reality though, Mao's life was not all that hard. He came from a land-owning family and so did not have a poor or deprived childhood. As a university student he lived in cramped quarters and the big-city students generally looked down on him because his rural accent betrayed him as a country bumpkin. But that hardly counts as 'pains and hardships'.

When he entered the Communist party he had to face several bouts of political infighting and struggles for power. That can be seen as par for the course if your aim is to wring the Party's leadership out of other peoples' hands. The WW 2 period is in the official biographies usually described as a period of deprivation, struggles and battles against Japanese occupation. In reality - most historians now agree - his 'resistance fighter' record during that period is nothing to write home about. Mao most of all tried to stay away from Japanese forces as he tried to preserve his army's strenghth for the post-war battle against the rival Kuomintang movement.

Many of the struggles and 'battles' with the Japanese described in the later Party records have been shown to have been either invented or exaggerated. The Japanese in turn left Mao largely alone since they saw the Communists as a useful deterrent from the 'official' Chinese resistance efforts by the Kuomintang - who by the way also showed themselves very little inclined to fight and whose top officials were thoroughly corrupt. Although Mao of course participated in the Long March during the war, his creature comforts were largely those of any commanding general; so - not too bad.

After the Communist takeover, Mao according to all available sources lived the good life still enjoyed today by China's Communist leaders and according to the memoirs of his personal physician, decided that the best way to keep his private parts clean was to 'bathe' them regularly in virgins provided to him for the purpose.

All in all, his trials were little different from those of any politician who has to fight his way to the top of his party and to absolute power. His 'Great Leap Forward' on the other hand led to pains, hardships an death for millions of ordinary Chinese.

In 1918, Mao Zedong was a student at the University of Peking. He was still a student when he read in 1920-21 the Communist Manifesto. This work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was a source of inspiration for the young Zedong.

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.

Over 45 million people during the Great Leap Forward

group rather than individual welfare.

Mao Tse-Tung (also known as Mao Zedong) was founder and chairman of the People's Republic of China (mainland China,which was not actually treated as China by the US until the 1970s-Taiwan, the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-Shek, was treated as the real China). Mao was responsible for the Great Leap Forward that resulted in widespread famine, killing 20-30 million people.

Mao Tze Dong believed that religion is an institution that seeks to dominate the common man.

Mao Tse Tung's third and last wife, known pseudonymously as Jiang Qing, was born on March 14, 1914 and died May 14, 1991.

Jiang Qing, born Li Shumeng, was a movie actress when she met Mao Tse-tung in the late 1930s. She appeared in only one known picture, Lang shan die xue ji, made in 1936 (Translation: The Wolf Hill).

Jiang Qing and Mao were married in 1939. She was an egalitarian Communist and participated in the 1966-1969 Chinese Cultural Revolution as the leader of the infamous Gang of Four.

She was also part of a group that tried to take over the Chinese government after Chairman Mao's death in 1976, and was imprisoned for her crime in 1981. Although she was originally sentenced to death, the court later commuted her sentence to life in prison.

Jiang Qing committed suicide by hanging on May 14, 1991.

Chairman Mao Zedong is one of the most notorious leaders in world history. He built the Red Army for the People's Republic of China.

On Nov. 1, 1931, they proclaimed the establishment of theChinese Soviet Republic in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, with Mao Zedong as chairman. Here the first units of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were formed. While conducting guerrilla warfare in these regions, the soldiers carried out an agrarian revolution that was based on Mao's premise that the best way to win the conflict was to isolate the cities by gaining control of the countryside and the food supply.

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

No, they are not but some of them are. My mom came from Haiti and she is a good immigrant.

Thousands died rom hunger, freezing, exposure, and battle wounds. Japan invaded China, thus continuing the Chinese Civil War. Only Mao Zedong an 7,000 - 8,000 survivors made it to China

Alexander came to power after the murder of his father.

Alexander came to power because he had payed people to kill his father and assassinate him.

He got power before he made all the bad decisions

Being a hero to many/all in the Obama administration...oh yea and killing a LOT of people.

Mao promised to feed the starving people.

He was the first Communist dictator of China from 1949 to 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.

China adopted more free-market practices while remaining loyal to its communist roots.

Mao Zedong did not actually physically murder anyone by himself. But he was responsible for the deaths of 45 million people while he ruled China.

yes he did!

they glorified themselves as a supreme leader,

they led a false hope of thrusting both countries into world power houses

they regulated anything that wasn't to do with their country(mostly under Mme. Mao's regime)

most importantly they both killed millions of people