Mao, l'empereur rouge

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People s Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west.br/br/ The most well known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934. The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic, led by an inexperienced military commission, was on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s troops in their stronghold in Jiangxi province. The Communists, under the eventual command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, escaped in a ci Supplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd. 1060_05_CPA0030192,copyright: IMAGO/UIG / www.imago-images.de / IMAGO/UIG

Après la proclamation de la République populaire de Chine, l'heure est à la réorganisation du pays. En 1950, la guerre de Corée constitue pour le leader chinois une première mise à l'épreuve. Affaibli politiquement, il engage des réformes brutales, avant que la politique économique du "Grand Bond en avant", en 1958, ne provoque l'une des plus grandes famines de l'histoire, causant des millions de morts.