Rise to Power

Mao's Rise to Power

After the credit he received from helping to lead The Long March. He commanded the Second United Front of the Red Army, which saw successes in the defeat of the Japanese invasion and the wiping out of regional warlords. Mao successfully staved off the KMT and enacted land reform by using violence and terror to overthrow and seize the estates of feudalistic landlords, which he then divided into people's communes. 

A major accomplishment was the reunification of China, which brought together all of the territories controlled by the PRC under a single government entity. He achieved this through The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries. Essentially, those with dissenting viewpoints were targeted and publicly discredited in mass show trials. Others were imprisoned, executed, and sent to work camps. 

A young Mao Zedong