Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the revolutionary leader who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ruled it until his death in 1976.
His policies—the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution—caused tens of millions of deaths through famine and political violence.
Maoism remains the official ideology of China's Communist Party, though much modified.
A portrait of Mao still hangs in Tiananmen Square.
Maoist mass political campaign
- Great Leap ForwardFailed rapid industrialization campaign
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
- communesShared-living communities
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
famine · purges · rustication · Gang of Four · cadres · landlord class
Communist state's formal name
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
- Chinese Communist PartyChina's ruling political organization
- TiananmenBeijing square and gate
Hunan · founding father · chairman · People's Liberation Army · Politburo · Central Committee · Chinese Revolution · land reform
State-led revolutionary socialism
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- socialismCommunal economic control
communism · collectivism · Little Red Book · contradictions · self-criticism · voluntarism · thought reform
Printed wall advertisements
- slogansCatchy promotional catchphrases
- Little Red BookChinese communist thought compilation
- iconographyAnalysis of artistic symbols
- cult of personalityExcessive veneration of leader
mass mobilization · political campaigns · loudspeakers · red sun · quotations · indoctrination · reeducation · agitprop
Causing public dispute
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- personality cultOrganized glorification of ruler
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
founder · modernizer · dictator · liberator · icon · Deng Xiaoping · embalmed · mausoleum
Chinese Nationalist leader
- KuomintangChinese nationalist political party
- NationalistsNamed political party members
- KhrushchevCold War Soviet premier
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
Cultural Revolution
Maoist mass political campaign
- Great Leap ForwardFailed rapid industrialization campaign
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
- communesShared-living communities
collectivization · famine · purges · rustication · Gang of Four · cadres · landlord class
People's Republic
Communist state's formal name
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
- Chinese Communist PartyChina's ruling political organization
Tiananmen · Hunan · founding father · chairman · People's Liberation Army · Politburo · Central Committee · Chinese Revolution · land reform · reunification
Marxism-Leninism
State-led revolutionary socialism
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
socialism · communism · collectivism · Little Red Book · contradictions · self-criticism · voluntarism · thought reform
posters
Printed wall advertisements
- slogansCatchy promotional catchphrases
- Little Red BookChinese communist thought compilation
- iconographyAnalysis of artistic symbols
cult of personality · mass mobilization · political campaigns · loudspeakers · red sun · quotations · indoctrination · reeducation · agitprop · revolutionary art
controversial
Causing public dispute
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- personality cultOrganized glorification of ruler
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
totalitarian · founder · modernizer · dictator · liberator · icon · Deng Xiaoping · embalmed · mausoleum · portraits
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Nationalist leader
- KuomintangChinese nationalist political party
- NationalistsNamed political party members
- KhrushchevCold War Soviet premier
Trotsky · landlords · imperialists · warlords
- Asian FiguresConfucius, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Mencius, Deng Xiaoping
- Asian LeadersXi Jinping, Gandhi, Nehru, Hirohito, Emperor Meiji
- China WWIIFlying Tigers, Chongqing, Burma Road, Chiang Kai-shek, Kuomintang
- Chinese LeadersDeng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen
- Political LeadersJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Lenin, Fidel Castro
- Revolutionary LeadersFidel Castro, Simon Bolivar, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin
Mao ZedongChiang Kai-shek
Chinese Nationalist leader
Ronald Reagan · Margaret Thatcher · Augusto Pinochet · Milton Friedman · Ayn Rand
Mao ZedongMahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr. · Nelson Mandela · Dalai Lama · pacifist
Mao ZedongDwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon · John F. Kennedy · Harry S. Truman · Harry Truman · Douglas MacArthur