A Life Changing Leader

Mao Zedong, was a son of a peasant farmer and born in 1893. He served in the army as a young kid and also worked at a library as a young child following his fathers footsteps of being a rich person in society through hard work. Mao Zedong rose to power in China in the thirties and stressed the importance of leadership in the peasant movement that he directed.
In 1928 Mao led the fourth red army for the peasant movement and also wanted to unify China and oppose the Japanese aggression by using his Communism government. Mao wanted to focus his revolution in the weak areas of china and also the uncommon ones, rural places would be in western china and the rural countryside. Mao wanted to focus on literature because he saw that as the primary goal in a revolution and his experience with reading and learning was important to him and thought that knowledge/education is power. Mao’s father showed him that his transition from poor to rich was through hard work and Mao learned that first hand. In 1958 Mao started the Great Leap forward to increase Chinas production and agriculture. It involved 75,000 people and had a lot of factories running to help it. Mao also worked on trading routes and relationships with exports. This lasted until 1962 when he had to create a new plan for reformation and revolution.
Mao lived a very simple life as a leader, which is somewhat uncommon. Mao, owning broken items, worked late overtimes, and owned very little items in his name. Mao’s son was killed in the Korean war and Mao’s other son wrote about the death. Mao was a very good leader, widely respected by others and helped his people change for the better, although some people do not agree.