Mao Tse-Tung by Stuart R. Schram

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By any reckoning Mao Tse-tung must be regarded as one of the greatest and most remarkable statesmen of modern times. As a poet of distinction, as a political philosopher of major importance, and as a strategist whose 6000-mile trek across China has become a legend, Mao has devoted his life to China and the Chinese peasants. Indeed the Chinese People’s Republic has shaped a whole pattern of revolution for poor peasant societies. In this new biography, Stuart Schram sifts fact from fiction in the long story of Mao’s struggle to free the greatness of China and to give a new meaning to Marxism.