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Authoritarian and Single Party States: Mao: Rise to power

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Designer: Ying Yeping (应野平), Wang Huanqing (汪欢清) 1961, December A Long March scroll (one). Ruijin

10,000 km trek made Mao the undisputed party leader

Mao Zedong addressing a group of his followers in 1944. SOURCE: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Nationalist and Communists

Chinese Civil War

China's Peasant Emperor

China and the Rise of Mao