The main attraction to this sphere of interest was the dramatic shift in popular Western opinion of Chairman Mao Zedong over the last few decades. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... OCR is written before Mao's death in 1976, and prior to the reversal of the depictions of major protagonists in the Chinese leadership. As a result, OCR is much more sympat...

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Immediately after the initial armed conflict on Zhenbao Island, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev enacted an aggressive diplomacy strategy formulated to reach a peaceful accord with Mao Zedong and the Chinese. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... Mao Zedong deemed this information as being credible and believed that an attack was imminent, so he agreed to peace negotiations with Moscow. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his Chinese counterpart Mao Zedong both seemingly utilized Sun Tzu...

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From 1949 China was ruled by communist dictator Mao Zedong. ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao expressed his basic intentions to unify China and create a "new world" in a poem: "Great plans are being made; A bridge will fly to join the north and south, a deep chasm become a thoroughfare the mountain goddess, it she is still there, will be startled to find her world so change...

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Geopolitical challenges of China nowadays are directly connected with the perspective of becoming a superpower. That is why in order to investigate Chinese status it is necessary to elaborate on Chinese geopolitical environment its conditions and prospects. During centuries geopolitics of China was ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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