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The 133 pages that link to Mao Zedong, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese Civil WarRelated: His strategy of rural mobilization and protracted warfare helped distinguish the Communist approach.

• Guerrilla warfareRelated: Mao described guerrilla warfare as one phase in a broader revolutionary strategy.

• Chinese Communist PartyRelated: Mao shaped the CCP’s revolutionary doctrine and its first decades in power.

• Cultural RevolutionRelated: He initiated the campaign to revive revolutionary fervor and reassert political authority.

• Deng XiaopingCompared with: Deng redirected policy after Mao while preserving the Communist Party’s central authority.

• Second Sino-Japanese WarRelated: His party’s resistance strategy strengthened its position during the war.

• People's Republic of ChinaRelated: He proclaimed the new state in Beijing on October 1, 1949.

• Chiang Kai-shekCompared with: His victory over Chiang’s forces ended Nationalist rule on the mainland.

• Chinese Communist RevolutionRelated: Mao led the party through victory and proclaimed the new republic.

• Cult of personalityRelated: His image and writings became central to mass political campaigns, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

• Zhou EnlaiRelated: Zhou served for decades as premier under Mao, balancing government administration with the chairman’s political authority.

• MaoismRelated: His writings and political practice gave Maoism its name and distinctive arguments.

• Leonid BrezhnevCompared with: The Sino-Soviet split made Mao's China a rival Communist power during Brezhnev's leadership.

• Ho Chi MinhRelated: Mao’s China supplied North Vietnam with substantial support while pursuing its own revolutionary strategy.

• Long MarchRelated: The Zunyi Conference strengthened his influence over the party and military.

• KuomintangCompared with: His forces defeated the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War.

• Sino-Soviet splitRelated: Mao’s revolutionary strategy and claim to ideological authority shaped China’s side of the rupture.

• StalinismRelated: Mao adapted Stalinist institutions and methods to China's revolutionary conditions.

• Great Leap ForwardRelated: Mao launched and defended the drive for rapid collectivization and industrial growth.

• Reform and Opening UpCompared with: The post-1978 program departed from Mao-era economic priorities while retaining one-party rule.

• Northern ExpeditionRelated: He organized peasant movements in Hunan during the expedition and opposed the Kuomintang’s suppression of communists.

• Xi JinpingCompared with: Xi invokes Mao-era party traditions while governing in a different economic and institutional setting.

• HunanBroader topic: His birth in Shaoshan made Hunan central to his personal and political story.

• Lin BiaoRelated: Mao promoted Lin, designated him successor, and later accused him of plotting against the leadership.

• Sun TzuRelated: Mao drew on Chinese military traditions, including ideas associated with Sun Tzu.

• Liu ShaoqiRelated: Mao’s conflict with Liu over policy and authority culminated in Liu’s purge during the Cultural Revolution.

• Second United FrontRelated: The alliance years helped him strengthen his control over the Communist movement.

• Zhu DeRelated: His partnership with Zhu shaped Communist military strategy and leadership.

• Hu JintaoCompared with: Mao’s personalist revolutionary rule contrasts with Hu’s bureaucratic, post-reform leadership.

• PeasantRelated: His strategy made rural peasants central to a revolution that Marxist theory had often centered on workers.

• Revolutionary socialismRelated: His strategy adapted revolutionary Marxism to a predominantly rural society.

• Chen DuxiuRelated: Mao worked under Chen at Peking University and later became a leading party figure.

• Enver HoxhaRelated: Hoxha allied with Mao’s China after the Soviet split, before later condemning Chinese policy.

• Fabian strategyRelated: His account of protracted war developed a modern strategy of retreat, resistance, and eventual counteroffensive.

• Mao Zedong ThoughtBroader topic: His writings, leadership, and political campaigns are the source of the body of ideas named for him.

• Marco Polo Bridge IncidentRelated: The invasion prompted renewed cooperation between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalists.

• Shining PathRelated: Shining Path invoked Mao's ideas, while its Peruvian strategy departed from the historical conditions of China's revolution.

• Chen YunRelated: Chen served under Mao and helped direct the party-state through its founding decades.

• First United FrontRelated: He worked in the Kuomintang’s Peasant Movement Training Institute during the alliance.

• Hu ShihCompared with: Mao’s communist politics became the dominant alternative to the liberal tradition Hu defended.

• Hu YaobangCompared with: Hu’s rehabilitation of Mao-era victims challenged the political legacy of Mao’s campaigns.

• People's WarRelated: Mao developed the strategy's most influential theoretical account.

• PuyiRelated: Puyi’s postwar treatment became part of the new state’s approach to former elites.

• Tiananmen SquareRelated: His portrait and mausoleum give the square a lasting association with revolutionary state legitimacy.

• Yan'an Rectification MovementRelated: He designed the campaign’s ideological direction and emerged with dominant authority over the party.

• Chinese RevolutionRelated: His leadership shaped the victorious revolutionary movement and its new state.

• Jiang QingRelated: Her marriage to Mao gave her political standing, while their relationship shaped her access to power.

• Peking UniversityRelated: He worked in Peking University’s library in 1918, an early episode in his political formation.

• China–North Korea relationsRelated: Mao committed Chinese forces to the Korean War and established close ties with Kim Il Sung.

• Four ModernizationsRelated: His political campaigns disrupted the development plans the program later sought to resume.