This fusion of ideas became known officially as " Mao Zedong Thought ", or Maoism outside of China.

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.

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.

The Congress solidified the role of Maoism within the party psyche, re-introducing Mao Zedong Thought as an official guiding ideology of the party in the party constitution, and officially designating Lin as Mao's successor.

Mao himself is officially regarded by the CPC as a " great revolutionary leader " for his role in fighting the Japanese and creating the People's Republic of China, but Maoism as implemented between 1959 and 1976 is regarded by today's CPC as an economic and political disaster.

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.

It is now officially claimed by the Communist Party of China that Mao in his last year turned against Jiang Qing and her associates, and that after his death on 9 September 1976, they attempted to seize power ( the same allegation made against Lin Biao in 1971 ).

In November 1935, shortly after settling in northern Shaanxi, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the Red Army.

The dealer may then say " this game of Mao has officially begun ".

When the final card is played, he must say " Mao ", or " this game of Mao is officially ended ".

As the Cultural Revolution and the personality cult of Mao Zedong was approaching its apogee in February 1967, only two others works were officially authorized for wide publication and distribution: Vladimir Lenin's, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, and Friedrich Engels ' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.

After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the members of the Gang of Four were officially blamed for the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, and Bo's family was released.

As Mao consolidated his power, he became the actual paramount leader of CCP, even though Zhang Wentian was officially appointed as General Secretary of the CCP in Zunyi Conference.

Yang began writing traditional Chinese poetry while working in the countryside, despite this genre of poetry being officially proscribed under the rule of Mao Zedong.

Mao declared the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

Mao Zedong declared that the nation would " lean to the east ", meaning that the Soviet Union and the communist bloc would be its principle allies.

Mao declared that despite some faults, Stalin had basically been a good, well-meaning Marxist.

Whatever its other causes, the Cultural Revolution, declared in 1966, was overtly pro-Maoist, and gave Mao the power and influence to purge the Party of his political enemies at the highest levels of government.

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

Bob Avakian developed the analysis and led the forces within the RCP that declared that there had been a coup in China following Mao ’ s death and the new Chinese leadership was taking China on a capitalist road.

The national emblem of the People's Republic of China () contains a representation of Tiananmen Gate, the entrance gate of the Forbidden City where Mao declared the foundation of PRC in 1949, in a red circle.

His followers declared Guzmán, who cultivated anonymity, to be the " Fourth Sword of Communism " ( after Marx, Lenin, and Mao ).

She was a Party member in good standing, he declared, and had no affiliations that would bar marriage to Mao.

Kabila had declared himself a Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong.

It was declared that the organization would follow the ideas carved by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and, not least, to build on the examples and experience of Protracted People's Wars in Peru, Nepal, Philippines, India, Turkey and elsewhere.

In 1966, Mao and his allies launched the Cultural Revolution, which would last until Mao's death a decade later.

Inheriting a country fraught with social and institutional woes resulting from the Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng became the core of the " second generation " of Chinese leadership.

* 1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its " Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China ", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.

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.

At the same time, many Sino-Burmese were influenced by the Cultural Revolution in China and began to wear Mao badges.

By contrast, neighboring Chinese leader Mao Zedong was mostly ignored and Kim Il-sung rejected most of his policies such as the Hundred Flowers Campaign and ( later ) the Cultural Revolution.

Kim visited Beijing in May 1975 in the hope of gaining support for this plan to invade South Korea again, but Mao Zedong refused, saying the China would be unable to assist North Korea this time because of the lingering after-effects of the Cultural Revolution and because they had recently restored diplomatic relations with the US.

It was disbanded during the Cultural Revolution under Mao, but re-established in 1980.

* Cultural Revolution in China ( 1966 – 1976 ) – a period of widespread social and political upheaval in the People's Republic of China which was launched by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Communist Party of China.

** In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.

Mao set the scene for the Cultural Revolution by " cleansing " powerful officials of questionable loyalty who were based in Beijing.

Mao also restored the function of some formal party institutions, such as the operations of the party's Politburo, which ceased functioning between 1966-8 because the Central Cultural Revolution Group held de facto control of the country.

The attacks on Zhang found favour with many attendees at the Plenum, and may have been construed by Mao as an indirect attack on the Cultural Revolution itself.

The event caught the party leadership off guard: that Lin – already enshrined into the Party Constitution as Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms " and " successor " – could betray Mao de-legitimized a vast body of Cultural Revolution political rhetoric.

By late 1975 however, Mao saw that Deng's economic restructuring might negate the legacy of the Cultural Revolution, and launched a campaign to oppose " rehabilitating the case for the rightists ", alluding to Deng as the country's foremost " rightist ".

Years of resentment over the Cultural Revolution, the public persecution of Deng Xiaoping ( who was seen as Zhou's ally ), and the prohibition against publicly mourning Zhou became associated with each other shortly after Zhou's death, leading to popular discontent against Mao and the Gang of Four.

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

Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.

In Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that as many as 3 million people died in the violence of the Cultural Revolution.

The Resolution boldly noted Mao's leadership role in the movement, stating that " chief responsibility for the grave ' Left ' error of the ' Cultural Revolution ,' an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration, does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong ".

With the Cultural Revolution Mao was simply " returning to form ," once again taking on the role of a guerrilla leader fighting against an institutionalized Party bureaucracy.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.