Enter Communism
Chen Diuxi
- Chen Diuxiu was the founder and original leader of the Chinese Communist Party that eventually came to rule in China. He was formerly a convict is dynastic China due to his strong support of Marxist communism. Eventually, his views began to influence China, and helped him amass power throughout his home city of Shanghai, where the party was founded in 1921.
Mao Zedong
- Active communist party member from the party's founding in 1921
- Survived the Long March as the sole leader of the Communist Party
- Gained control of China in 1949
- Started the Great Leap Forward
- Died in September of 1976
- Artist's illustration of Mao as a communist party youth
- An aged Mao giving one of his last speeches on his birthday