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Mao Tse-tung is the eldest of a relatively prosperous family Xiangtan, Hunan Province in China son. Born in 1893, he will also have 2 brothers and 4 sisters. His ancestors came from Jiangxi Province fashion bug in the Ming dynasty and settled as farmers. His native language was not Mandarin but xiang, dialect including much of other Chinese and will feature speeches. Mao also never mastered Putonghua, Chinese standard language that their own turn on in instead.
At 14, his father married a cousin he hates and which he never consume the marriage and that he does not live in concubinage. She died three years later, Mao becomes a bitter opponent of the traditional weddings. fashion bug It will become, in adulthood, consumers courtesans and maintain multiple relationships until very late in his life. He is a soldier fashion bug for 6 months during the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and freed the dynastic tradition, China falls into a bright confusion. The new governor of Hunan, as opposed to liberal imperialism that centralized power in Beijing is to stop poppy cultivation and prohibits the importation of the drug. For a time, a free press is allowed, criticizing the excesses of Powers, to the dismay of the British Consulate.
In 1917, Mao founded the Society for the Study of new people with the name sounding radical, almost revolutionary, pretends to "renovate the Chinese people." At the same time the Soviet Union, the February Revolution followed the Bolshevik revolution change this part of the world forever which will also have a large impact on the visions of the young Mao Zedong. University, Mao traveled with one of his teachers, his future father-in to Beijing where he attended the May 4th Movement of 1919. This professor, fashion bug in addition to advice on what courses to take to make this a good peasant intellectual, he finds a job at the library. Zedong immersed in books to get rid of this complex son of a peasant. Most students his age go to study in France but languages other than the Hunan dialect, will always be a challenge for Zedong. All his life, he will come out of China also only once, in November 1957 in the Soviet Union.
In 1920, Mao Zedong finally adheres to Marxism. At 28, Mao participated in the first session of the Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. Two years later, he was elected as one of five commissioners 3rd Party central office during the third session of Congress.
During the first two months of 1927, Mao returned to Hunan Province and travel for a month through the Xiangtan and four rural districts. It sets out its findings in a famous document: the "report on the peasant movement in Hunan." This work is considered the decisive point of departure to the application of its violent revolutionary theories. fashion bug The same year, Mao raised an army called the Revolutionary Army of workers and peasants. It starts in September lifting of the fall harvest. fashion bug His troops will be defeated, and they will be forced to leave Hunan Province. Mao reorganize its forces in the mountains.
It holds within each cell of a company party with a political commissar who can give political instructions fashion bug based on instructions above. This military rearrangement initiates the absolute control of the Chinese Communist Party on its military and is regarded as having the most fundamental impact on the Chinese revolution. He created the Red Army of workers and peasants of China is not unanimity Party. Mao removes "the fashion bug Soviet" fashion bug any form of hostility to its aims, the number of victims vary around 186,000 Chinese. This domestic terrorism sitting some authority around the name of Mao Zedong. It will be 700,000 victims, 20% of the population while communism run. Mao does not rise in the ranks as its strategic choices are always made according to personal interest, at the risk of thousands fashion bug of unnecessary deaths. It is then discredited by his peers but discovers a Soviet method that not ever forget: the purges.
Elected president of a small republic in the mountainous regions of Jiangxi, there he remarried (for the third time) with a wife officially his previous wife had been arrested and executed in 1930. It creates a small army but effective, and conducts experiments of reforms