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MAO TSE-TUNG: As communist revolutionary
leader, Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) helped
form the Chinese Communist Party in 1921.
Later, he served in SUN YAT-SEN's Kuomintang
government until CHIANG KAI-SHEK took over
and purged the government of communists in
1928. Mao, with his fellow communist Chuh
Teh, formed the Fourth Chinese Red Army
and led them on a six-thousand-mile Long
March to SHENSI province in northern CHINA.
After a truce between Mao's communists and
Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists during World
War II, civil war broke out, with Mao
successfully driving out the Nationalists and
taking over as head of the People's Republic
of CHINA in 1949. He then collectivized land
and purged CHINA of all dissidents and non-
communists during the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution in 1966. He ruled CHINA
until his death in 1976. (See also China article).