Now the party secretary for Hunan, Mao stationed himself in Changsha, from where he went on a recruitment drive to gain support for the Communist Party.

Although Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the power struggles and political instability between 1969 and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 are now also widely regarded as part of the Revolution.

On April 6, 1967, Liu Shaoqi was openly and widely denounced by a Zhongnanhai faction whose members included Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng, and ultimately, Mao himself.

It initially targeted Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, but would later involve Mao himself.

On January 15 Deng Xiaoping delivered Zhou's official eulogy in a funeral attended by all of China's most senior leaders with the notable absence of Mao himself, who had grown increasingly critical of Zhou.

A small number of slogans left at Tiananmen even attacked Mao himself, and his Cultural Revolution.

But it diluted blame on Mao himself by asserting that the movement was " manipulated by the counterrevolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing ", who caused its worst excesses.

Mao had always envisioned himself as a wartime guerrilla leader, which made him wary of the bureaucratic details of peacetime governance.

During this period Mao clearly established himself as a Marxist theoretician and produced the bulk of the works which would later be canonized into the " thought of Mao Zedong ".

In Deng's day, support of radical Maoism was regarded as a form of " left deviationism " and being based on a cult of personality, although these ' errors ' are officially attributed to the Gang of Four rather than to Mao himself.

Mao thought of himself as a philosopher ; Zhou saw his role as an administrator or a negotiator.

In December 1931, Zhou replaced Mao Zedong as Secretary of the First Front Army with Xiang Ying, and made himself political commissar of the Red Army, in place of Mao.

Following the Great Leap Forward ( 1958 – 1961 ), Mao was highly criticized within the CCP, and turned to Jiang, among others, to support himself and persecute his enemies.

She was supported by a radical coterie, dubbed, by Mao himself, the Gang of Four.

" When the Soviet premier himself visited China the following year, Mao again asked him to explain what a joint fleet was.

In both national politics and Chinese popular culture, Mao established himself as a demigod accountable to no one, purging any that he suspected of opposing him and directing the masses and Red Guards " to destroy virtually all state and party institutions ".

The theory of Three Represents was believed by many political analysts to be Jiang's effort at extending his vision to Marxist – Leninist principles, and therefore elevating himself alongside previous Chinese Marxist philosophers Mao and Deng.

The word " Fān " was formerly used by the Chinese almost innocently in the sense of ' aborigines ' to refer to ethnic groups in South China, and Mao Zedong himself once used it in 1938 in a speech advocating equal rights for the various minority peoples.

Mao's personal physician Li Zhisui, on the other hand, suggests that the campaign was " a gamble, based on a calculation that genuine counterrevolutionaries were few, that rebels like Hu Feng had been permanently intimidated into silence, and that other intellectuals would follow Mao's lead, speaking out only against the people and practices Mao himself most wanted to subject to reform.

Mao, however, seems to have refused to do so himself.

The exact reason why Mao Zedong refused to reinstate the presidency was unclear, however it is now known that Mao did not want his political struggle with Liu Shaoqi to be remembered as his attempt to claim the title of the presidency for himself.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

In contrast, the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, and Mao.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

Mitter has observed that, ironically, today's China is closer to Chiang's vision than to Mao Zedong's.

* 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

As a result, Mao is still officially held in high regard by many in China as a great political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation.

Mao is still regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, and was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine.

Yang was favourable towards Mao, writing in his journal that " it is truly difficult to imagine someone so intelligent and handsome him.

The " Three Worlds Theory " developed by Mao Zedong is different from the Western theory of the Three Worlds or Third World.

* November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.

* October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

* January 25 – Chiang Ching (" Madame Mao ") is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.

Yao boldly alleged that Hai Rui was really an allegory attacking Mao ; that is, Mao was the corrupt emperor and Peng Dehuai was the honest civil servant.

There is some evidence to suggest that Mao was pushed to seek closer relations with the United States as a means to avoid PLA dominance in domestic affairs that would result from a military confrontation with the Soviet Union.

Maoism, formally known as Mao Zedong Thought (), is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong ( 1893 – 1976 ).

Mao believed that human consciousness is the key factor in human history.

This belief, or the fervor with which Mao held it, separated Mao from the other Chinese Communists and led Mao onto the path of what Leon Trotsky called, " Messianic Revolutionary Nationalism " which was central to his personal philosophy and is demonstrated in his long-standing hostile relationship with ComIntern.

During the period immediately following the Long March, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party were headquartered in Yan ' an, which is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanxi province.

It was here that Mao summarized the correlation between Marxist theory and Chinese practice ; " The target is the Chinese revolution, the arrow is Marxism-Leninism.