Mao Zedong was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman. He led his country’s communist revolution.
Mao recommended the scene for the Cultural Revolution by the purging of powerful officials of questionable loyalty who were based in Beijing. He had an approach which was less than transparent and achieved this purge through newspaper articles, internal meetings and skillfully making use of his network of political allies.
He also launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society. He decreed increased efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside.
