People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Mao Zedong 毛泽东
He rewrote the grammar of revolution for a peasant country
Political and party leadership · People’s Republic of China state institutions
1893–1976
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Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄
Sun Yat-sen’s widow who stayed with the Kuomintang left and became a vice-chair of the People’s Republic
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China
1893–1981
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Zhang Guotao 张国焘
Chair of the founding congress who split with Mao on the Long March and defected to the Nationalists
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of China
1897–1979
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Ye Jianying 叶剑英
From Whampoa instructor to marshal, the soldier who organised the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 and ended the Cultural Revolution
Military command · People’s Republic of China state institutions
1897–1986
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Zhou Enlai 周恩来
The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy
Government and administration · People’s Republic of China state institutions
1898–1976