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(26 December 1893 - 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the PRC, which he led as the chairman of the CCP from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.

The son of a well-to-do peasant family in Hunan, he was educated in Changsha and then Beijing, teaching, publishing and journalism.

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In 1918 he went to work as a librarian at the University of Beijing. Unlike many contemporaries, he did not take the opportunity to travel and study abroad. While in Beijing Mao embraced Marxism and his life changed forever.

Mao joined the first CCP Congress in 1921. Taking the ideas from the meeting, he began to organize and implement the party within Hunan, where he lived during this time. Using his skills from his time teaching and writing during the revolution a decade earlier, M