Nikola Šipka introduces a story covering Mao's revolution, the Long March, the Cultural Revolution, and what he got right and wrong for China.
As heard by us
A wide Mao history that links revolution, loss, and state power without flattening any of them.
HistoryCast uses Mao Tse Tung to trace China's modern rupture, starting with his peasant birth in Henan and moving through the end of empire, revolution, civil war, the Long March, the Great Leap Forward, the great hunger, and the Cultural Revolution.
Why you'd press play
You want Mao framed inside China's century of upheaval, not as a disconnected strongman alone.
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