Mao Zedong lead the Communist party to power in China, and for the next twenty-years, he would transform the country from a backyard peasent nation, to one of the worlds leading major powers. Mao was born in 1893, in the village of Shaosham , in Huanan province, the son of a well-off peasent. In 1911, a revolution had broke out against the decaying, Chi'ng dynasty, which had ruled China since the seventeenth century, and Mao was an eighteen-year old student, when the rebellion brokeout. Within a thew months, the imperial government was overthrowned, and China became a republic, under the new leadership of Sun-Yat-Sen. After that, the country went through tough times, and the country would go through a series of civil wars, right until 1949. As a youngman Mao become very leftist, and by 1920, he confirmed himself Marxist. In 1921, Mao was amongst the twelve founders of the Chinesse Communist Party, and his climb to the top, was rather slow. Meanwhile, the Communist Party faced major set-backs in 1927 and 1934, but after that managed to survive them all. In 1935, Mao became leader of the Chinesse Communist Party, and in 1946, there were prepared for an all-out war with Chinesse Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek. In 1949, the Nationalists were driven out of mainland China, and after that Mao became Communist leader of China, and proclaimed the Peoples Republic of China. From this point, Mao's infleunce began, and by the time of his death in 1976, China would have largely been transformed. When Mao became leader of China, China was a war-torn country, and it's peasents were very illeterate,and secondly Mao changed the economic system of China from a Capitalist to a Socialist nation. The economic policies, Mao introduced seem rather less important, simply because in a matter of ten or five years, China will abandon Socialism ,and may become a capitalist country. However Mao, believed that the peasents of China, will largely benefit from there Communist rulers. In 1958, Mao ordered the Great-Leap-Forward , in which many intellectual and rivals of Mao, were arrested by his secret police, and many were put to death. Mao had established a totoleran system in China. At least 20 to 30 million of his own countrymen would have met there deaths at the hands of Mao, his reign is one of the bloodiest periods in history, and the only people who can challenge Mao's devious honour are (Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan). There was some liberalization after Mao's death in China, but to convert China into a demorcracy has lead to suppression by Deng Xiapeng-as in June 1989, in the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing -quite savagely. By the time of the Cultural revolution in China in the late 1960's and early 1970's, Mao was almost in his eighties. But when Mao was alive, it looked as if the Communist government would indure for a long time, but after his death, his infleune was dimnishing. When he was alive, it looked he would overwhelm the infleunce of Shi Huangdi, but the infleunce of Shi Huangdi in China, endured for twenty-two centuries, but the infleunce of Mao's, is rapidly fading. It is hard to judge the the long-term infleunce of a recent politician, Mao Zedong and Shi Huangdi, were both Chinesse, revolutionaries and both transformed the country. The system Mao built, is no longer any use after his death, and China today is much for different, than in the time of Mao. The dictorial position, which Mao established looks unsecure and, China is abandoning Socialism. But of thee credit of what China is today, must go to Mao, and I feel it is approapriate to compare Mao with Lenin. If Mao was the one who established Marxism in China, Lenin was the one, who established it in Russia. At first sight, it looks Mao is more important than Lenin, mainly because China has four-times the population of the Soviet Union. But Lenin infleunced Mao, he set an example for him, and infleunced Mao's thinking. Lenin, had an enormous worldwide infleunce than Mao did, and taking into consideration, it seems that Mao should be ranked somewhat below Lenin.