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OCR: ABCDEFGHIIKLMNOPORSTUVWXYZ Mao Tse-tung Mao Tse-tung One of the founders of the Chinese Commurist party CCP) in 1921 Mao Tse tung realized that revolution in China depended or mobilizing the peasants rather thar the urbat working class Swept to powet it 661 he dominatec Chinese politics for the next 20 years Mao reputation was based on his genius for guerrilla warfare Driven out of Jiangxi province in 1934, he led his followers or the 6 000-mile "Long March" to northwest China, where the invasionl of the Japanese 17 1937 gave him at excuse to train the army that later overwhelmed the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek and establish the People Republic of China. Mao began by relying or Russia for aid but in 1958 he split from his Soviet advisers to initiate the "Great Leap Forward crash- ...