Mao zedong, the influential chinese leader and founder of the people’s republic of china, shaped history through his revolutionary ideology and policies that transformed a nation. Mao was one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the 20th century, in china and abroad. Mao zedong led communist forces in china through a long revolution beginning in 1927 and ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949.
As a chinese communist party leader, political strategist, and revolutionary thinker, mao left a profound mark on 20th century chinese history. Mao zedong was a marxist theorist, revolutionary, and, from 1949 to 1959, the first chairman of the people’s republic of china Mao zedong used controversial methods to transform china into a superpower
While mao zedong ignores stalin’s advice for compromise and. In 1949, mao's forces defeated the nationalist government, which withdrew to taiwan
