HELP PLEASEEEEE :] Cold War Dictator- Mao Zedong?

Question

During the cold war era, how did Mao Zedong rule? What did he do while he was in power?

Answer 1

Mao Zedong led China from 1949 to 1976. During that, he tried to impose his rigid and somewhat bizarre ideology on China, with generally disastrous results.

The two key eras for Mao's China are the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Here are sites on both.

Great Leap Forward
http://www.mindground.net/glp.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/economics/china-essays/4.html
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/prc2.html
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/glf.html

Cultural Revolution
http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/cultural-revolution/
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/prc3.html
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/crc.html
http://www.cnd.org/CR/old/main.html