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In September 1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He had united China, restored effective central government and freed it from foreign domination. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) he led was effective and feared, but also generally respected. His personal stature was massive. He towered over his associates and had a ‘cult of personality’, presenting him as a demigod. But he was not necessarily satisfied. He had not won power for its own sake, but to fundamentally transform China He felt he had cause to worry that he was failing in this.
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Swift, J. (2003). The Cultural Revolution. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_25
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