Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China. He was the leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from the 1930s until his death in 1976, and served as the country's first Premier and later Chairman of the Central Military Commission. Mao's political and military strategies, commonly known as Maoism, were instrumental in the CPC's victory in the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. His policies and theories greatly influenced the cultural, political, and economic landscape of China, and continue to be debated and analyzed by scholars and historians to this day.
