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Mao Zedong was active in Chinese politics for most of his 82 years, and became one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. He was the first chairman of the People's Republic of China, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and the architect of the Cultural Revolution, selling over 740 million copies of his Little Red Book. The author describes Mao's struggle to build the Party and bring it to power, the disastrous Great Leap Forward which resulted in millions of deaths, his use of the Cultural Revolution to reimpose his authority, and the search for a successor who would sustain his revolutionary vision.
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