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Leader of the Chinese Revolution and founder of the People's Republic, Mao adapted Marxism to the peasantry through people's war, collectivization, and the permanent mobilization of the masses in campaigns of radical transformation.
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Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with a single party, a state-run economy, universal health and education, export of armed revolution and the new man ideal against imperialism.
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German communist leader who ruled East Germany under tight Soviet control, building the Berlin Wall in 1961, collectivizing the economy, and repressing dissent under Stasi surveillance and single-party rule.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Under Mao, revolutionary China was a single-party communist state, with a collectivized economy and permanent mass mobilization, marked by campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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