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Mao was the author of ''Quotations from Chairman Mao,'' published in 1966, informally known as "the little red book." During his lifetime, almost everyone in the People's Republic of China was expected to have a copy.   

Mao was the author of ''Quotations from Chairman Mao,'' published in 1966, informally known as "the little red book." During his lifetime, almost everyone in the People's Republic of China was expected to have a copy.   

With the aid of [[Comintern]] operatives in the US Government subverting [[President Roosevelt]]'s vision of a post-War [[United Nations]] enforcing peace by "the four policemen". <ref>Townsend Hooper and Douglas Brinkley, [http://www.ninehundred.net/~jveon/fdrbook.html ''FDR and the Creation of the U.N.''] (New Haven, 2000).</ref><ref>[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwii/17604.htm U.S. State Department], Office of the Historian, Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History 1937-1945, United Nations.</ref> Mao defeated Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, taking control of the Chinese mainland and establishing the People's Republic of China. As the leader of China, Mao initiated the Great Leap Forward, an economic plan intended to rapidly industrialize China's then largely rural economy. In the end it proved a failure, preventing the peasants from producing needed food and causing massive famines;   over 20 million people starved to death. Later, Mao instigated the Cultural Revolution, in which those disloyal to the party were killed or humiliated in order to solidify Mao's control. Richard Nixon was the first United States president to meet with Mao, and thus the first to acknowlege the existence of the People's Republic of China, as opposed to Taiwan's Republic of China.

With the aid of [[Comintern]] operatives in the US Government subverting [[President Roosevelt]]'s vision of a post-War [[United Nations]] enforcing peace by "the four policemen". <ref>Townsend Hooper and Douglas Brinkley, [http://www.ninehundred.net/~jveon/fdrbook.html ''FDR and the Creation of the U.N.''] (New Haven, 2000).</ref><ref>[http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwii/17604.htm U.S. State Department], Office of the Historian, Timeline of U.S. Diplomatic History 1937-1945, United Nations.</ref> Mao defeated Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, taking control of the Chinese mainland and establishing the People's Republic of China. As the leader of China, Mao initiated the [[Great Leap Forward]], an economic plan intended to rapidly industrialize China's then largely rural economy. In the end it proved a failure, preventing the peasants from producing needed food and causing massive famines; over 20 million people starved to death. Later, Mao instigated the [[Cultural Revolution]], in which those disloyal to the party were killed or humiliated in order to solidify Mao's control. [[Richard Nixon]] was the first United States president to meet with Mao, and thus the first to acknowlege the existence of the People's Republic of China, as opposed to Taiwan's Republic of China.

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