Mao Zedong

             'Between 1927 and 1935 Mao Zedong was a successful revolutionary leader in China.' Discuss with reference to key events including Mao's Report on the Hunan Peasantry, the Jiangxi Soviet and the Long March'
             During the critical revolutionary years of 1927-1935, Mao Zedong did prove instrumental in ultimately playing a successful revolutionary leader, in several circumstances. Firstly his appearance and influence in many major revolutionary event suggest his personal input is relatively large in the general scheme of events, also Mao displays, through these years his care for the peasants, and its is this demonstration of thought and time towards this group, so instrumental themselves in actual revolution, that actively displays Mao's true success as a revolutionary leader in China.
             During the years of 1927-28 Mao was the director of the Nationalists' Farmers Movement and Training Institute, a group which played a role in training political activists to work with the peasants, in an ultimate goal to benefit them both politically and economically. This itself, displays Mao's bright leadership, particularly as he aims to benefit a generally much weaker group, in terms of social, political and financial standing with Chinese society, and it is this group the Mao tends to focus on more, in terms of revolutionizing China. To coincide with his work in this particular organization, Mao later wrote his 'Report on the Hunan Peasantry'. MacDonald describes the report as 'the beginning of Mao's theoretical thinking', and this further suggests his Mao's movements away from traditional Marxism, towards a more traditional Chinese communism. This demonstrates Mao's ingenuity, as he aims to modify the traditional values of Marxism, however in an overall aim to benefit the Chinese people. Shortly after writing the report Mao said of the peasants, '(they) will rise like a
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