Mao zedong last words

Mao Zedung was born to a farming family in the Hunan Province in 1893. After witnessing the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of China's awakening nationalism, he served briefly in the Hunan Republican Army.

Here, Mao came into contact with socialist ideals, and embarked on a self-directed course of political and economic study, inspired primarily by Marx's class struggle and Lenin's anti-imperialist stance.

In 1921, Mao was amongst the feuding members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In 1925 he returned to Hunan, fleeing from the Nationalist Party's (Guo Midung or GMD) persecution of Communists under Chiang Kai-Shek. Two years later, Mao carried out a study of the impoverished Hunanene peasantry, concluding that the countryside, and not the cities, could launch the Chinese Communist Revolution.

Between 1934-35, under threat from the GMD, Mao led the Long March to Yan'du, where they built their headquarters and Mao became Chairma