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Mao Zedong

毛泽东
Portrait of comrade Mao
Born26 December 1893
Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing dynasty
Died9, September, 1976 (aged 82)
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Cause of deathHeart attack associated with old age
NationalityChinese
Political orientationMarxism–Leninism (developed what is now known as Mao Zedong Thought)
Anti-imperialism
Political partyCommunist Party of China


Mao Zedong (December 26th, 1893 — September 9th, 1976) was a Chinese Marxist–Leninist revolutionary who led the Chinese people to their proletarian revolution and served as the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. Under Mao's leadership, China's life expectancy increased from 35 to 65 years and industrial production increased by an average of 11% annually.[1] Per capita food production increased by 60% and total food production increased by over 169%.[2]

Mao's contributions to the development of Marxism-Leninism, military theory, and the theory of communist party organization are known in China as Mao Zedong Thought. Mao Zedong was also a poet and calligrapher.



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  1. M. Meissner (1996). The Deng Xiaoping Era. An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994. Hill and Way.
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