Mao Zedong Leader

Mao Zedong was a communist that overcame many objectives to become a leader of China. There were many weaknesses and strengths of the communist. There was also weakness and strengths in the Nationalists. During his rule in World War 2 Japanese invaded China. Where both communist and Nationalist dealt with the invasion. The Soviet Union played a vital role in the Civil War. After Mao’s death, Deng Xiaoping took over and used the four modernizations to Reform China to restore the economic system. Mao found the PRC or better known as the People’s Republic of China.

Through out all of history we have seen so many heroes and villains all over the world. But one place in particular was in China, with a leader who goes by the name of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a well-known communist leader in china who actually lead the Chinese Communist Party. He is one of the most important people/historical figures in history. At first he was helping China at the beginning of his ruling, nut then his actions had cause China to completely fall and breakout into violence and complete chaos!! Changing the views of his people because whatever good he had done did not matter anymore from his great down fall. During his ruling though some believed that Mao

Mao Zedong was a military leader, a soldier, a principle of the Chinese Marxist theorists, and the man who led his nations cultural revolution. There are so many ways that Mao seems to be the perfect man the man who has his life together and he was a very good self promoter. He is what you could say make China 's communism a big deal during the Cold War. The Chinese revolution was placed around 4 years after the war and you could say that Mao had a big impact in that. Being that he did lead the revolution, he was the man who kind of impacted a part of

Mao ZeDong is one of the greatest leaders in the history of New China. The influence of Mao’s theory is profound and lasting. He is a great thinker, poet, and a highly intelligent military strategist. Under his leadership and the actions he performed during The Long March, Chinese Civil War then defeating the Kuomintang Party to built the New China are the main epic episodes. Mao ZeDong's extravagant actions made two of the many changes to China. They are the shift from a capitalist system to a socialist system and the achievement of China's independence against Japanese imperialism (Somo, 2013a). The influence of Mao’s theory has been widespread to the world up until this day. Especially, in the countries of the third world have

Mao’s rise to power was as a result of favourable conditions resulting from both the failures of the Nationalist party (GMD) and the various successes of the Communist party (CCP). Before Mao was able to consolidate his power over China in 1949, he first had to become solitary leader of the CCP party; which he accomplished through his ideology, policies and leadership qualities.

Mao was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Above everything, he was a communist. His world revolves around him being a communist (Wood, 8, Class Notes). He believed that the world was divided into two separate sides, the communists and the capitalists. This shaped the way in which he conducted matters for mainland China because everything he did was justified by his communist ideologies (Mao, 13). Many of the things he did was because he always thought about communism being his number one priority. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are two main events that Mao led that shape his worldviews in having an underlying tone of communism which will be discussed later on in the essay. Mao wanted equality within all aspects of life throughout all classes in society. He believed that every individual should be treated the same (Mao, 19).

Mao came into power the same as any other leader would in a dynasty, and that was by overthrowing the previous leader. When Mao came into power, he began implementing new reforms and spread propaganda to gain support and prevent a rebellion. What he did differently than in past dynasties was he targeted the working middle class to prevent a revolt against him. He oppressed people and targeted individuals labeled enemies, isolating them in reeducation. In Mao’s movements to change Chinese culture and thought, early reforms, transition to collective farming, the Great leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, he did all of the corrupt things that the leader of a dynasty would do. He tried to force people to follow his way of thinking and he isolated those who were dangerous to him and would be able to take his power. Mao was power hungry and he impoverished the proletariat, just like all other dynastic leaders. However, he was smart enough to recognize how he could have complete control, strip people of their civil rights, and still stay in

A line of thousands of Chinese communists hiked up the mountains of Northern China. The years of struggle and harsh life they lived did not deter these fighters. Their goal was to create a better future for the common Chinese citizen by using communism; something which their leader called “a hammer which we use to crush our enemies.” He stayed true to his word. This bold and charismatic leader was at the head of a mass revolution in which China was forever changed. He led a movement which transformed China into the powerful and influential nation which they had never envisioned for themselves. This man’s name was Mao Zedong. Mao’s actions drove forward the process in which he turned both his nation and himself into world leaders.

Communism, control, and cold-bloodiness, are three words that immediately come to mind when describing Mao Zedong. But, one approach in gathering a clear understanding in the way that Mao ruled is by reading one of his personal quotes. This quote in found in his novel “The Little Red Book” in which he used to manipulate the teaching of communism to his young followers during the Cultural Revolution. It read, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” (Mao Zedong). Although this quote is merely a fragment in analyzing the manner in which Mao had ruled, it truly touches on the lengths his brutality could reach by exercising his praise for a communist government. The communist government was fueled by his love for war and using those

Mao Zedong had major positive and negative effects on China’s twentieth century development.Let me begin with the positives. He modernized, liberated and united the ancient, isolated, non-civilized China that fought an almost two decade long civil war and turned it into a major industrial power. He extended social services; healthcare and education. He supported and gave women equal rights, introduced marriage laws, stopped child and forced marriages, and women got right for divorce, also legalized abortion. He is nearly eliminated economic inequality, redistributed the land so every peasant had a small portion. Maoism inspired other nations for anti-colonial movements, especially in Western societies. This is the Chinese form of Marxist-Leninsm. The base of its ideology that agricultural laborers are the strong base of a successful revolution. He fought and against the Japanese invaders during WWII.

(Chang, 104). The book promoted Communism and Maoism sayings. It was quickly made available to all Chinese, and became a mantra and a necessity for everyone to carry at all times. Mao decided that it was crucial to now target his Communist influence and control on the youth of his state, because they would be more pliable and not remember the failed “Great Leap” Forward. He predicted correctly, as this method worked quite effectively.

In order to fully understand the effects of Mao in power, we must first understand those in power before him. Before Mao and his Chinese revolution to the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, China’s leading party was the Chinese Nationalist Party (also known as KMT). In 1912, Yuan Shikai became president of the KMT and soon began to ignore the parliament and make his own decisions. This, inadvertently, started the degradation of the KMT and the result was widespread corruption. This resulted in exploitation of the working class (around 90% of the population), and prioritised the middle and higher class, completely disregarding the welfare of the workers and peasants who powered the nation. Poor management in rural areas and heavy tax resulted

Over the course of Mao’s leadership from 1949 until his death in 1976 we can see the significance of his leadership and what made him a good and bad leader. Mao had made some very good decisions to help certain groups but also made some very bad decisions that paid the price, in some cases killing millions. Due to the social and economic changes that then followed by a significant increase in the population and weak leadership that led to rebellions from 1911 that saw the end of 3500years of rule by the Chinese imperial dynasties. The social and economic chaos then led to the formation of two political parties. The CCP, led by Mao Zedong and the GMD led by Chiang Kai Shek. Mao and his party defeated the GMD in 1949 bringing Mao into power. Mao’s main goal was to turn China into a pure communist country. Over the course of Mao’s leadership he did this by making significant social, economic and political changes to the Chinese way of life. However due to his poor leadership and the faults that he made it caused people to oppose him and get in the way of his goal. That is why in 1966 Mao decided to assert his beliefs through a series of decisions, which came to be known as the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a hard time for many people throughout China as Mao enforced many things upon them to achieve his aim of removing capitalism. Mao used the youth of China to be that

During in school, the book affected him a lot. In 18, Mao explore to a wider world –Changsha- for further education in Xiangxiang Middle school. Where he first contacted with media and learned about the current-day insurgence. However, after witnessing a battle he decided to join the army. The 6-month army life taught him the disadvantage of soldiery. (Wilson, 2008) In 1912, he went trough several schools and finally find his place in Hunan Province Public Library. For the latter half year, he read large quantity of articles by western theorists and philosophers, such as and Herbert Spencer’s .From 1913 to 1918, he was studying in Hunan Province Forth Normal School. During the restless period, Mao’s ideology was roughly shaped. Next year, he was in Beijing University Library and attending classes there, where he met some radical figures such as Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao.

In 1949 a powerful communist leader by the name of Mao Zedong came to power based on his idea for a, “Great Leap Forward.” This idea was meant to bring China’s economy into the twentieth century. He had assembled a revolutionary government using traditional Chinese ideals of filial piety, harmony, and order. Mao's cult of personality, party purges, and political policies reflect Mao's esteem of these traditional Chinese ideals and history. However, the product of this revolution created a massive national shortage in vital materials and initiated a wide scale famine to China’s people (Gabriel).