After the death of [[Stalin]] in 1954, Mao did not consider Stalin's lieutenants who succeeded him as equals, and showed an increasing willingness to depart from the [[Moscow]]-directed worldwide communist [[revolution]] declared by [[Lenin]] in 1919. | After the death of [[Stalin]] in 1954, Mao did not consider Stalin's lieutenants who succeeded him as equals, and showed an increasing willingness to depart from the [[Moscow]]-directed worldwide communist [[revolution]] declared by [[Lenin]] in 1919. |