Forty-seven years ago today, Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, died at 82. In 1949, after 28 years of revolutionary struggle, Mao founded the People's Republic of China, bringing the Chinese Communist Party to power in an extraordinary moment in Chinese, 20th-century, and revolutionary history. Born into a peasant family in the 19th century, he rose to lead China, transforming it from a poverty-stricken feudal nation into a socialist society. During his 27 years in power, Mao improved life expectancy, literacy rates, and increased the number of doctors. Through the establishment of the People's Republic, he also drove imperialism out of China. Significant technological advances, including the launch of a satellite, occurred during his leadership. Read on.

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