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Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the People's Republic of China. His two most important acts were the Great Leap Forward in 1958 and the Cultural Revolution between 1966-1972. The original goal of The Great Leap Forward was to elevate the economic level of the People's Republic up to that of the United Kingdom within fifteen years. To do this, Mao insisted that they must triple China's steel production and establish communes, which contained about five thousand families, and succeeded in stripping the peasants of basic private property, such as their homes and farm animals. To contribute to the mass steel production, people were forced to donate everything they owned, including woks, jewelry, and more, and if they did not provide anything, they would be considered "anti-Party," which could destroy their reputation and life. People were forced to lie about the amount of food they could produce, or else they would be beaten, which resulted in famine all over China. The Cultural Revolution was basically a power struggle between the members of the Communist Party of China, and a way to eliminate types of class enemies such as "rightists", "intellectuals", and "capitalist-roaders". Mao encouraged the violence which was brought about by the Red Guards, who were students and young people who basically attacked and torturted their elders and class enemies for the sake of Mao, and the Gang of Four, which was a terror group led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing. Mao was an evil dictator who did everything he did to maintain his own power. He put himself before Communism and before China.

Suggested reading on the subject:

1. Wild Swans by Jung Chang

2. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

3. Chairman Mao Talks to the People, edited by Stuart Schram

I hope this helped, I am a high school student who is writing about Mao for my research paper, and I feel I know a great deal about the subject.

He is not an evil, he did a lot of things which makes Chinese people have much better life. China will become the strongest country in the world. Even thought he did some bad things to maintain his own power. But how do you know leaders from other countries didn't do anything to maintain their power. Anyway, because of him, let lots china become so strong, all the Chinese are living under a wonderful country.

Uh Yea he is evil. He murdered a bunch of people! he was one of the worst killers (along with Stalin and Hitler) the world has ever seen. He could have made China better without killing a bunch of people.

Another question to ask is: Was ideology important for Mao?

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