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The Long March cemented Mao's status as the dominant figure in the party. In November 1935, he was named chairman of the Military Commission. From this point onward, Mao was the Communist Party's undisputed leader, even though he would not become party chairman until 1943. [130]
Whilst the intended purpose of the meeting was to display unity of the world communist movement, the outcome was quite different. [12] In the debates at the meeting Mao argued for a centralized world communist movement whilst the Italian communist leader Palmiro Togliatti argued for decentralization of the world communist movement and autonomy of individual parties. [13]
In 1972, General Secretary Erich Honecker visited Cuba and in honor of the state visit, Fidel Castro renamed an island to Ernst Thälmann Island in honor of Ernst Thälmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1925 to 1933. Fidel Castro made a promise to hand over the island to the East German Government although it was later ...
The CCP officially regards Mao himself as a "great revolutionary leader" for his role in fighting against the Japanese fascist invasion during the Second World War and creating the People's Republic of China, but Maoism, as implemented between 1959 and 1976, is regarded by today's CCP as an economic and political disaster.
Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) that was written by the husband-and-wife team of the writer Jung Chang and the historian Jon Halliday, who detail Mao's early life, his introduction to the Chinese Communist Party, and his political career.
Mao was replaced by Zhou Enlai as leader of the military commission. [9] Chiang's strategy of slowly constructing a series of interlinking blockhouses (resembling medieval castles) was successful, and Chiang's army was able to capture several major Communist strongholds within months. Between January and March 1934, the Nationalists advanced ...
However, China's strained relations with new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and newfound contradictions between the Chinese and Soviet schools of communism seeded a novel and radical drive to reform China's economic system in its entirety. This split developed after Stalin's death in 1953 when new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced him.
Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945 (1988) Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (1988) Roberts, Geoffrey (2006), Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11204-1