How Did Mao Tse-Tung Fall

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Kim Jong-il are all famous dictators known for their callousness, cruelty, and lack of sympathy for their people. However, there is one dictator who is less well known and just as bad or worse. Mao Tse-tung, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1976, was ruthless not only towards his enemies, but towards his friends, family, and the citizens of China. Two of his more infamous policies are the Great Leap Forward, which killed about 38 million people, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which destroyed much of China’s culture and many of its citizens. . Mao Tse-tung was the Communist dictator of China who, despite his intelligence, was inhumane and responsible …show more content…
Although there was an alliance, the fact that Mao was working closely in the NP provoked his own party. He returned to his home, Shaoshan, for a rest from 1924 to 1925. While there, he saw peasant demonstrations that were occurring because of the shooting of Chinese by foreign police in Shanghai (May and June of 1925). He then realized the revolutionary potential of peasants. Before this, even though he came from a family of peasants, his view of peasants was the traditional Chinese intellectual’s view- dirty and ignorant. Later, he was forced to leave his home province by the military governor of Hunan. Mao went to Guangzhou, which was the main power base of the Nationalists. He became the head of propaganda department of the Nationalists, and edited the Political Weekly. Mao attended the Second Kuomintang Congress (Nationalist Party’s Congress) in January of 1926. Chiang Kai-shek, who became the leader of the Nationalist Party in 1925, wanted to get to get rid of the Soviet Union’s influence on his party, so he removed communists in important positions. Even though that happened in May, 1926, Mao stayed until October of