Portrait of Mao Zedong from propaganda poster

Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong as depicted in a Cultural Revolution-era propaganda poster.

Adapted from "The Sunshine of Mao Zedong Thought Illuminates the Path of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," 1967, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (Flickr: thomasfisherlibrary), https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfisherlibrary/48648213837

Mao, Zedong 1893- 1976

Leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949-1976.

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Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong as depicted in a Cultural Revolution-era propaganda poster.

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Zhou, Enlai

1898- 1976

Kim, Il Sung

1912- 1994

Liu, Shaoqi

1898- 1969

Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich

1894- 1971

Chen, Yi

1901- 1972

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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

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Conversations with Mao Zedong

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Photograph of 38th parallel crossing during Korean War

Korean War, 1950-1953

Long Live Mao Zedong Thought (1968)

Making of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1950

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December 27, 1952	Telegram from Stalin to Mao Zedong Stalin agrees to send ammunitions to Mao in preparation for a US attack.
October 9, 1964	Conversation between Comrade Beqir Balluku and Comrade Mao Zedong on 9 October 1964 Mao Zedong and Beqir Balluku ridicule Nikita Khrushchev and discuss the grievances that both Albania and China have towards the Soviet Union.
May 13, 1959	From the Meeting of the Delegation of the Party of Labor of Albania with Comrade Mao Zedong on 13 May 1959 Mao and Kapo discuss Albania's history and its present day struggle with Yugoslavia. Mao reviews the CCP's own history as well as developments in Tibet.
June 11, 1949	Letter, Jiang Qing to Mao Zedong Jiang Qing writes to Mao Zedong about her health, developments in the Chinese Civil War, and the problems of Chinese Communist Propaganda.
January 13, 1951	Ciphered telegram, Roshchin to USSR Foreign Ministry Message to Stalin from Roshchin informing him of the Chinese receipt of one of his earlier telegrams and informing him of an invitation to Beijing to Kim Il Sung and Peng Dehuai from Mao.

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Mao, Zedong 1893- 1976

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