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OCR: ABCDEFGHIIKLMNOPORSTUVWXYZ Mao Tse-tung Mao Tse-tung One of the founders of the Chinese Corrirrurist (CCP) in 1921 Mao Tse. tung realized that revolution it China depended or mobilizing the peasants rather thar the urban working class. Swept to powe 1949 he dorinated Chinese politics for the next 20 vears Mao s reputation was based on his genius for guerrilla warfare Driven out of Jiangxi provinice it7 1934 he led his followers on the 6 000 tile ong March to China, where the invasion of the Japanese 117 1937 gave hirr arl excuse to train the army that later overwhelmed the Nationalist forces Chiang Kai- -shek and establish the People Republic of China. Mao began by relying on Russia for aid but in 1958 he split frorm his Soviet advisers to ititiate the "Great Leap Forward crash- -roderriza ...