Maoism facts for kids

Tiananmen with a portrait of Mao Zedong

Maoism is the communist (a plan about how countries should work) idea created by the Chinese man Mao Zedong. Mao believed that peasants, not factory workers, should lead the communist revolution (change in government). China followed Maoism when he became leader, in 1949. This created differences with communism in the USSR and Cuba. Maoism is still practiced in China today, but it has become different since Mao died in 1976. Today the Chinese economy is considered capitalist. (a plan about free markets). but some still call China communist.

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• Chinese Civil War

Images for kids

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  Strategic Issues of Anti-Japanese Guerrilla War (1938)

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  Strategic Issues in the Chinese Revolutionary War (1947)

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  Beijing, 1978. The billboard reads, "Long Live Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought!"

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  Mao Zedong

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  Deng Xiaoping

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  Maoist leader Prachanda speaking at a rally in Pokhara, Nepal

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  The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) in February 2013

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  Mao Zedong meets Richard Nixon on February 21, 1972, leading to a radical turn of events in which Nixon took steps to placate tensions between the People's Republic of China and the United States, beginning the slow process of reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two global powers

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In Spanish: Maoísmo para niños