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Estimate the role of Mao Tse tung in making China a communist country.

Answer 1

1. Chinese Revolution broke out in 1911. Mao joined the revolutionary army but very soon left for his studies.
2. Later, Mao went to Peking and worked as an assistant librarian at Peking University.
3. Karl Marx and Lenin became very popular those days and in 1918, A society for the study of Marxism was formed in Peking University and Mao attended it.
4. The communist party of China was under the leadership of Mao-Tse-Tung, But at the same time, Chiang Kai sheik’s Kuomintang party was very strong.
5. So, Mao organized the peasantry when the Kuomintang and Communist party rivalry continued, communists led by Mao-Tse-tung stayed for seven years and his army started growing gradually.
6. By 1933, he gained full control of the Chinese Communist party.
7. He organised a long march with 100,000 people. This legendry march was obstructed very badly by his rival party of Kuomintang.
8. Only 20,000 people finally reached safely.
9. By 1937, Mao had become the leader of China of over 10 million people.
10. By 1948, Communist control had been established over most parts of China.
11. In 1949, the people’s political consultative conference met in Peking.
12. The conference consisted of 650 delegates from the communist party and other left-wing organisations and elected the central Governing Council with Mao as its chairman.
13. Thus, Mao established the people’s Republic of China as a major communist power in the world next to the Soviet Union.