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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong, also known as Mao Tse-Tung was the son of a peasant and was born in Chaochan, China in 1893. He became Marxist while working as a library assistant at Peking University. He served revolutionary army during the 1911 Chinese Revolution. In 1921, the Chinese Communist Party was Established and Mao Zedong was one of the first members along with Zhoa Enlai, Zhu De and Lin Biao. After the party was established, Mao started studying the Ideas and Policies of Vladimir Lenin. He studied him because he successfully revolutionized russia and started the Communist party there. In 1935 he organized an escape march for the civilians living in the mountains. On the march they expierenced terrible hardships. They had to cross mountains and rivers and eventually ended up in western China. In October, 1949, he announced the starting of the People's Rebublic of China. He was the leader and started an Industrial and cultural revolution known as "The Great Leap Forward". There was fighting among the officials in his government so he decided to coordinate attacks on them in order to make them resign or stop fighting. The Cultural Revolutionended in October, 1968 when Liu Shaoqi resigned from his position in government. Mao died in Beiijing on September 9, 1976.