There, Mao joined his army with that of Zhu De, creating the Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army of China, Red Army in short.

Mao, with the help of Zhu De, built a modest but effective army, undertook experiments in rural reform and government, and provided refuge for Communists fleeing the KMT purges in the cities.

At the Sixth Congress, Zhou delivered a long speech insisting that conditions in China were not favorable for immediate revolution, and that the main task of the CCP should be to develop revolutionary momentum by winning over the support of the masses in the countryside and establishing a Soviet regime in southern China, similar to the one that Mao Zedong and Zhu De were already establishing around Jiangxi.

* 1930: Unofficial founding of the Jiangxi – Fujian Soviet by Mao Zedong and Zhu De.

The most senior leaders to support Mao in 1932 were Zhou Enlai, who had become disillusioned with the strategic leadership of other senior leaders in the Party, and Mao's old comrade, Zhu De.

Su Zhu ( 16 February 1921 – 20 August 2008 ), better known by the nom de guerre Hua Guofeng, was Mao Zedong's designated successor as the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China.

Having criticized Mao Zedong's " irrational high growth " policies during the Great Leap Forward, Zhu was labeled a " Rightist " in 1958 and sent to work as a teacher at a cadre school.

Most of the leaders such as Mao and Zhu De proposed the execution of Chiang for his suppressions, which had damaged the CPC immensely.

Zhu's close affiliation with Mao Zedong began in 1928 when under the assistance of Chen Yi and Lin Biao, Zhu defected from Fan Shisheng's protection and marched his army of 10, 000 men to the Jinggang Mountains.

Here Mao had formed a soviet in 1927, and Zhu began building up his army into the Red Army, consolidating and expanding the Soviet areas of control.

During this time Mao and Zhu became so closely connected that to the local peasant farmers they were known collectively as " Zhu Mao " ( homophonic to 猪毛, or pig's pelage ).

In 1929 Zhu and Mao were forced to flee Jinggangshan to Ruijin following Guomindang military pressure.

Arriving in Yan ' an, Zhu directed the reconstruction of the Red Army under the political guidance of Mao.

After Wang was defeated, Peng briefly rejoined Chiang Kai-shek's forces before joining the Chinese Communist Party, allying himself with Mao Zedong and Zhu De.

Peng made contact with local communist guerillas, nominally attached to the forces of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, and decided to issue a pronouncement in favor of the Communists on July 18, 1928.

On July 23 Peng declared the establishment of the " Hunan Provincial Soviet Government ", formally aligning himself with Mao and Zhu.

Peng then abandoned his bases and left to join Mao and Zhu at their base in Jinggangshan.

Peng's forces successfully joined Mao and Zhu in November 1928.

Peng then met with Zhu and Mao, and they reorganized their forces and decided to form a base area around the southern Jiangxi city of Ruijin, an agricultural city that was only defended by weak warlord units.

Zhu and Mao occupied the area, informally beginning the Jiangxi Soviet in January 1929.

Peng remained behind to guard Jinggangshan with a force of 800 soldiers, but withdrew from the area when it was attacked by a Hunanese Kuomintang force of 25, 000 soldiers, joining Zhu and Mao in Ruijin in March.

The former provided the driving force and often the life force that kept a tradition alive through the Mao years, especially in his adopted city of Beijing, and the latter has been instrumental in maintaining a high standard of symphonic music, as well as working hard for the popularization of the tradition further into the fabric of Chinese culture, across his long career, which continues to the present.

To avoid panic, the goal was kept a secret from most people, including Mao Zedong, and the public was told that only a portion of the Chinese Red Army would be engaged in mobile warfare to defeat nationalist forces, and thus this part of the army would be renamed as the “ Field Army ”.

Lin kept his position, but the events of the Lushan Conference revealed a growing distrust between Lin and Mao.

Zhang kept the now figurehead position of Chairman of Yan ' an Frontier Area and was frequently subjected to humiliation by Mao and his allies.

In a manner similar to the game Mao, which was a popular game in Cambridge at that time, the rules for each piece vary from game to game, and are initially kept secret from the players.

On the contrary, Miss Mao and Mr. Fuller chose many of their arrangements from the works of composers such as Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Canteloube, Copland and Britten.

Albanian-Chinese relations had stagnated by 1970, and when the Asian giant began to reemerge from isolation in the early 1970s, Mao and the other Communist Chinese leaders reassessed their commitment to tiny Albania.

Mao in 1949 set China in an isolationist, and communist country, along with their Soviet benefactors.

In Asia, Stalin fostered relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea, and his rule served as a model for their newly formed respective governments.

After solidifying the reunification of China through his Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, Mao enacted sweeping land reform, by using violence and terror to overthrow the feudal landlords before seizing their large estates and dividing the land into people's communes.

Following his mother's example, Mao also became a practising Buddhist from an early age, venerating a bronze statue of the Buddha which was in their home, but abandoned this faith in his mid-teenage years.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

His political views of the time were also shaped by popular protests that had erupted following a famine in Changsha, the capital of Hunan ; Mao supported the protester's demands, but the armed forces soon suppressed the dissenters and executed their leaders.

The famine soon spread throughout Hunan, reaching Shaoshan ; here, starving peasants seized some of his father's grain, and while Mao disapproved of their actions as morally wrong, he also claimed a great deal of sympathy for their situation.

Mao would publish his first article, " A Study of Physical Culture ", in New Youth in April 1917, in which he instructed all Chinese people to increase their physical strength in order to serve the revolutionary cause.

In 1927, after a large-scale purge of Communists from the Kuomintang in Shanghai that ended their alliance during the Northern Expedition, Mao conducted the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Changsha as commander-in-chief.

In the Jinggang Mountains, Mao persuaded two local insurgent leaders to pledge their allegiance to him.

In any case, revolutionaries like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong had no trouble adapting Clausewitz's concepts to their own purposes.

Despite their initial cooperation against " revisionism ," Hoxha denounced Mao as a revisionist, along with almost every other self-identified Communist organization in the world.

Without pointing fingers at the Soviet Union, Mao criticized their ideological ally, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, while the Soviets returned the favour by proxy via criticizing the Party of Labour of Albania, a Chinese ally.

Mao praised their actions in the recent campaigns to develop socialism and democracy.

In any case, their purpose had been largely fulfilled, and Mao had largely consolidated his political power.

In addition to the purge of Chen, Mao asked Lin's principal generals to write self-criticisms on their political positions as a warning to Lin.

According to official sources, sensing the reduction of Lin's power base and his declining health, Lin's supporters plotted to use the military power still at their disposal to oust Mao in a coup.

Meanwhile Mao issued a series of rebukes against the Gang of Four, criticizing their ability to manage the economy.

On some decisions, Mao sought to mitigate the Gang's influence, but on others, he acquiesced to their demands.

Chinese traditional arts and ideas were ignored and publicly attacked, with praise for Mao being practiced in their place.

They would frequently go back home to visit their parents in the cities, and they had money to spend and wore fashionable clothes .” Gao also claimed that during the Revolution, Mao sent his daughter, Li Na, to work on a farm in Jiangxi.

Red Guard slogans were the most violent in nature, such as “ Strike the enemy down on the floor and step on him with a foot ”, “ Long live the red terror !” and “ Those who are against Chairman Mao will have their dog skulls smashed into pieces ”.